Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia was known as the ___________.

• land between two rivers
• the first language
• the home of the Egyptians
• the land on the mountain

The floods benefited Mesopotamia by...

• supplying fresh drinking water.
• giving highly fertile soil.
• removing waste-generated pollution.
• giving strong natural defenses.

A large arc of fertile land that went from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.

• Growing Season

• Social Crescent

• Fertile Buns

• Fertile Crescent

Cuneiform was the first ______.

• Spoken language
• Test
• Poem
• Written language

Worshipping multiple gods or deities.

• Polytheistic
• Fertile Crescent
• Nomad
• Cuneiform

The only people in Mesopotamia who could read or write were...

• kings
• merchants
• priests
• scribes

A system of watering crops is...

• cuneiform
• irrigation
• levees
• ziggurats

A Sumerian temple to honor their chief god was called a

• scribe.
• cradle.
• Gilgamesh.
• ziggurat.

Where was one of the first civilizations?

• Europe

• Russia

• Mesopotamia

• Iran

A mixture of rock and soil that makes it easy to grow crops.

• marsh

• clay

• dirt

• Silt