Mesopotamia Review

The geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers is called?

• Sumer
• Mesopotamia
• levee
• Iran

Lands controlled by one ruler is called

• colony
• empire
• taxation
• village

A scribe is a

• writer
• ruler
• worker
• farmer

Laws that followed the idea of an “eye for an eye” is known as

• Code of Laws
• Code of Hammurabi
• Code of Samurai
• Code of Sargon

What is the rich soil left over from flooding?

• artisan
• silt
• scribe
• irrigation

What is wedge-shaped letters written on soft clay?    

• city-state
• scribes
• cuneiform
• ziggurat

Who were skilled workers who made metal products, cloth or pottery?

• farmers
• scribes
• kings
• artisans

Who was the ruler of the Babylonians?

• Sargon
• Hammurabi

Sumerians worshiped and believed in more than one god.  What is this called?

• monotheism
• empire
• worship
• polytheism

Trading without the use of money is called

• irrigation
• barter
• monotheism
• civilization