Mesopotamia 2023 School Year

In Greek, Mesopotamia means?

• The land between 2 rivers

• The rivers between 2 lands

• The river that flows up and down

• Means wedges

What protected the city-states from attacks?

• Giant walls

• Armies

• Rivers

• Sargon the Great

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

Mesopotamia is the earliest known civilization and it developed between

• the Tiber and Euphrates River
• the Tigris and Euphrates River
• the Nile and Tigris River
• The Nile and Tiber River

Sumerian writing was called

• hieroglyphics 
• cuneiform
• alphabet
• lexicon

A large territory or group of many territories governed by one ruler

• kingdom
• city state
• empire
• province

This person created

the first known empire

• Nabuchenedzar

• Nabupolasar

• Hammurabi

• Sargon

Who wrote the first set of laws

• Nebucheser

• hammurabi

• king George 3

• George washington