Ancient Mesopotamia

What does Mesopotamia mean?

• the land of plenty

• the land between rivers

• the middle of the earth

• the land of smart people

Why do they call it the Fertile Crescent?

• because the women had a lot of babies

• because the animals had a lot of babies

• because the moon was in a crescent form all of the time

• The land was fertile and shaped like a crescent moon.

What is polytheism?

• an amphibian with many legs

• the worship of many gods

• the worship of one god

• the worship of no god/gods

Three things that the Sumerians invented were...

• The wheel, writing, and the plow.

• The wheel, top, and toys.

• The wheel, the telephone, and houses

• The wheel, the computer, and guns.

What is cuneiform?

• the first writing system

• a game made with cubes

• the first written law

• a seal

What did a scribe do?

• He wrote for the king and government officials.

• He wrote stories.

• He told stories.

• He was in charge of collecting the taxes.

What is a ziggurat?

• a tomb for the king

• a temple where the priests worshiped their gods

• a temple where the priests performed human sacrifices

• a Mesopotamian cigarett.

Mesopotamia means the land between two rivers. Name the two rivers.

• The Nile and the Amazon

• The Tigris and the Euphrates

• The Snake and the Colorado

• The Pol and the Yangtze.

Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens to please his wife

• Nineveh
• Babylon
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Sargon

True or False: Babylonian's had a social class system that protected the wealthy over the poor. 

• True
• False