Unit 2, Lesson 1: The Fertile Crescent and Vocabulary

The Sumerian writing system was called

• Sargon
• Cyrillian
• cuneiform
• hieroglypics

Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?

• Hammurabi
• Gilgamesh
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Ninevah

Grand temple with a shrine at the top

• irrigation
• nomads
• ziggurat
• scribes

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 Euphrates and the Tigris

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

The civilization of Sumer developed

• between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

• in the present day country of Israel.

• in Egypt.

• along the Nile River.

Hammurabi's Code is important in world history because it was a __________.

• Form of writing that could be used to record important events
• Written list of laws that contained ideas still found today
• Record-keeping system that enabled the Phoenecians to become great traders
• Set of symbols that allowed the Sumerians to communicate with other people

What was the primary reason that civilization first developed in Mesopotamia?

• Important centers of learning were in the valleys
• The mountains kept out warring tribes
• Farmers could use tractors and other machinery easily
• The soil was fertile because of flood deposits and silt