Western Asia and Egypt

The valley between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers is known as _____.

• Mesopotamia

• Gilgamesh

• Asia

• Egypt

The material deposited by the two rivers is called ____.

• pebbles

• rocks

• silt

• mud

The _____ were the creators of the first Mesopotamian civilization.

• Akkadians

• Sumerians

• Uruk

• Scribe

The people in ancient Mesopotamia learned to control the flow of rivers by using ______ and _____.

• rocks and mud

• brick and mud

• walls and dams

• irrigation and drainage

The religion of the Mesopotamians was _________.

• monotheistic

• theocracy

• polytheistic

• atheistic

The basic units of Sumerian civilization were ___.

• city-states

• apartments

• mud-houses

• bricks

Match the following

• invented the arch and the dome

• Mesopotamians

• massive stepped tower atop a temple

• ziggurat

• a government by divine authority

• theocracy

• one of the largest city-states

• Uruk

• a mixture of tin and copper

• Bronze

The three major social groups in Sumerian city-states were ____, _____, and _____.

• high, middle, and lower

• young, middle-age, and elderly

• old, middle, and new

• nobles, commoners, and slaves

Farming, trade, and industry describes the _____ of the Sumerian city-states.

• forced labor

• economy

• Nobles

• divine authority

Match the following

• reed stylus

• a tool for writing

• Hammurabi's cole

• "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"

• principle of retaliation

• used to train scribes

• empire

• a large political unit or state

• Cuneiform texts

• built on a system of strict justice