Mesopotamia

In Greek, Mesopotamia means?

• The land between 2 rivers

• The rivers between 2 lands

• The river that flows up and down

• Means wedges

When the rivers flooded, what was left behind?

• surplus

• irrigation

• silt

• mud

When you have extra food

• sumer

• extra food

• surplus

• irrigation

A belief in many gods

• Monotheism

• Polytheism

• Ziggurats

• Rituals

What is this an example of?

• Church

• Pyramid

• Ziggurat

• Temple

What was the earliest form of writing called?

• English

• Pictographs

• Cuneiform

• Scribe

What rivers did the Mesopotamians live by

• Cuyahoga and Grand

• Yellow and Yang sea

• Nile and Mississippi

• Tigris and Euphrates

Why did the Mesopotamians create irrigation systems?

• To keep the water in one place.

• To control all the water that they got all year long.

• To bring the water from the rivers to the plains.

What was Hammurabi known for?

• Creating police officers

• Being the nicest king

• Creating the first code of law called Hammurabi's Code

What does a scribe do for a living?

• cook
• paint
• fight
• write