Mesopotamia Review

A complex society that has cities, governments, art, religion, and writing.

• euphrates
• civilization
• mesopotamia
• empire

Which of these is a major source of fresh water in Mesopotamia?

• Assyria
• Euphrates
• Sumer
• Nile

What does the word "Mesopotamia" mean in the Greek language?

• first civilization
• new stone age
• people from the south
• land between the rivers

What do you call the southern part of Mesopotamia?

• Sumer
• Mesopotamia
• Assyria
• Euphrates

When you dig a ditch in the ground to bring water from a river to another place.

• cuneiform
• artisan
• scribe
• irrigation

When each city has its own king, its own government, its own army, its own way of doing things.

• ziggurat
• city-state
• civilization
• empire

What was the written language of Mesopotamia called?

• ziggurat
• scribe
• hieroglyphics
• cuneiform

Religious temples that look like pyramids but the sides look like stair steps.

• ziggurat
• artisan
• cuneiform
• hieroglyphic

These people were skilled workers who made clothes, pottery, and metal products.

• scribes
• akkadians
• sumerians
• artisans

These were people who learned how to write and got jobs keeping records.

• scribes
• akkadians
• sumerians
• artisans