Mesopotamia Review #2

This picture shows an area known as the..

• Farming Curve
• Fertile Crescent
• Green C
• Fertile Curve

Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?

• the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean

• the Tigris and the Persian Gulf

• the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates

• the Tigris and the Euphrates

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Cuneiform
• Hieroglyphs
• English
• Sargon

Which of these are Sumerian inventions?

• Plow
• Wheel
• Sailboat
• All of them

A Sumerian temple to honor their primary god was called a

• scribe.

• cradle.

• Gilgamesh.

• ziggurat.

The few Sumerians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what?

• artisans
• scribes
• heads of households
• merchants

What was the main religion of the Sumerians?

• Monotheism
• Christianity
• Polytheism
• Judaism

A city with its own political and economic control is called a ___

• City-State

• Country

• Village

• Culture

Babylonian leader who created the first written code of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life

• Gilgamesh
• Sargon
• Hammurabi 
• Sumer

Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops 

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes