Ancient Asian Civilizations

Mesopotamia was between two rivers named

• a) Tigris and Euphrates

• b) Tiger and Elephant

• c) Mississippi and Nile

Mesopotamia is called the "Cradle of _?"

• a) babies

• b) laws

• c) civilization

The kind of writing that the Mesopotamians invented was called

• a) book

• b) cuneiform

• c) picture

An important city in Mesopotamia was

• a) Ur

• b) Cairo

• c) Paris

Mesopotamians believed in

• a) no gods

• b) many gods

• a) one god

Mesopotamian temples were called

• a) mosques

• b) ziggurats

• c) pyramids

Hammurabi created the first written

• a) laws

• b) poems

• c) stories

Laws were made to help the people of Mesopotamia

• a) make jewelry

• b) write poems

• c) be good

Traditions are

• a) ideas that are passed on

• b) a way of writing on clay

• c) places where ancient people worshiped

What river was crucial to the development of the civilization of Harrapa of Mohenjo-Daro?

• Tigris

• Nile

• Indus

• Yellow