Mesopotamia Review

Cuneiform

• A clay tablet

• A system of writing that uses wedge-shaped marks etched into the clay.

• Methods of bringing water to areas of dry land through the use of canals, streams, troughs, pipes, etc.

• To worship multiple gods or deities

True or False: Polytheism means to worship only one god.

• True

• False

Methods of bringing water to areas of dry land through the use of canals, streams, troughs, pipes, etc.

• City-States

• Irritation

• Irrigation

• Empire

The Babylonian empire created the first written set of laws called ____________

• Hammurabi's Story

• Hammurabi's Tablet

• Hammurabi's Law

• Hammurabi's Code

Sargon united all of the city-states to create what?

• the first city-state

• the first territory

• the first empire

• the first city

What is located at the center of a city-state?

• Irrigation

• Farmland

• Castles

• Ziggurats

True or false: city-states each had their own individual rulers

• True

• False

What natural resource were city-states built near?

• Fresh water/rivers

• Trees

• Plants

Select all that apply: What modern-day country/countries made up Mesopotamia?

• Iraq

• Kuwait

• Syria

• Turkey

What two rivers flowed through Mesopotamia?

• Euphoria and Tigris

• Tiger and Euphrates

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Cuyahoga and Muskingum