Ancient Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica

Urban centers were used for........

• trade

• politics

• fights

• get married

Which is a farming method in Mesoamerica?

• Play a ball game.

• Settle near the river.

• Stored food to distribute when harvests are bad.

• Pray to the gods

What was the primary purpose of Ziggurats in Mesopotamia?

• Religious worship

• Astronomical observations

• Residential housing

• Defense against invaders

What was the writing system used by the Sumerians called?

• hieroglyphics

• pictographs

• runes

• cuneiform

_______ left behind by flooding made the land more fertile to grow crops.

• Sumerians

• Sand

• Levee

• Silt

Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica....

• • created dams and canals to provide irrigation.

• • were monotheists.

• depend on the rain.

• develop many advanced technologies.

• Hammurabi's code and today's law both have......

• • all the above.

• • cruel laws.

• • a code for some people.

• • a set of laws for everyone.

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  Which achievement allowed farmers to grow a surplus of food?

• • sailboat

• plow

• • cuneiform

• • wheel

• Part of Hammurabi's code...

  "If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out."[An eye for an eye]

  According to this statement......

• • punishments are bad.

• • leave it to Beaver.

• • punishment should be the same.

• • laws were meant to follow.

• He was considered the leader of the Jewish people.....

• • Abraham

• • Cyrus

• • Nebuchadnezzar

• • Moses