Mesopotamia

Gilgamesh was associated with what city?

• Kish

• Uruk

• Lagash

• Ur

The word Mesopotamia means

• the "pure land."

• "the blood of Gilgamesh."

• "wedge-shaped."

• "the land between the rivers."

The first complex society was developed in the southern Mesopotamian land of

• Akkad.

• Assyria.

• Sumer.

• Babylonia.

A Mesopotamian stepped pyramid is known as a

• eridu.

• lugal.

• coptic.

• ziggurat.

The creator of the first empire in Mesopotamia was

• Hammurabi.

• Sargon of Akkad.

• Gilgamesh.

• Nebuchadnezzar.

The Babylonians eventually fell in 1595 B.C.E. to the

• Hittites.

• Sumerians.

• Egyptians.

• Akkadians.

A Babylonian resurgence of power was led in the sixth century B.C.E. by

• Nebuchadnezzar.

• Ashurbanipal.

• Sargon.

• Hammurabi.

Mesopotamian metalworkers discovered that if they alloyed copper and tin they could produce

• steel.

• iron.

• silver.

• bronze.

Iron metallurgy came to Mesopotamia from the

• Phoenicians.

• Egyptians.

• Hittites.

• Assyrians.

The first people in the world to use wheeled vehicles were the

• Sumerians.

• Assyrians.

• Egyptians.

• Phoenicians.