Mesopotamia

What does Mesopotamia mean?

• The land between to lakes

• The land between two rivers

• The first recorded society

• Babylon in Sumerian language

What were some of the other civilizations (other than the Sumerians) that flourished?

• Akkadians

• Assyrians

• Babylonians

• Mesopotamians

What was an abundant resource used for pottery and writing?

What two rivers was Mesopotamia located between?

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Nile and Kwango

• Tigris and Nile

• Nile and Euphrates

What does the word "Cuneiform" mean?

• Sumerian style of literature

• Wedge shaped

• Clay tablets that supported writing

• The Epic of Gilgamesh

Who invented the first system of writing?

• Hammurabi

• ancient Sumerians

• Gilgamesh

• the ancient Ziggurats

Mesopotamian code of law was also called....

What were the religious buildings in Mesopotamia called?

• Churches

• Monotheism

• Polytheism

• Ziggurats

How many laws were there in Hammurabi's Code?

• 4000

• 282

• 6

• 3754

Who was the King that has his own first Epic Novel

• Gilgamesh

• Gargamel

• Enkidu

• Hammurabi

• Sargon II