Mesopotamia

What does Mesopotamia mean?

• The land between to lakes

• The land between two rivers

• The first recorded society

• Babylon in Sumerian language

Hunters and gatherers settled _____years ago.

• 1792 BCE

• Ice Age

• 12, 000

• Many

There were two areas of Mesopotamia. Southern and Northern. The Northern area was a _____that was bordered by mountains.

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

Match the following

• Rulers were appointed by gods

• Polytheism

• A religion that believes in one god

• Theocracy

• A city that is an independent nation

• Monarchy

• A religion that believes in many gods

• Monotheism

• Kings or Queens that pass power down to their children

• City-State