Mesopotamia was located on a flat plain between what two rivers?

• Yangtze and Indus

• Tigris and Nile

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Ganges and Euphrates

In what region in souther Mesopotamia had many cities formed by 3000 B.C.?

• Sumer

• Chaldea

• Assyria

• Ur

Who wrote the first law code, or collection of laws?

• Hammurabi

• Sargon

• Gigamesh

• Nebuchadnezzar

What is the world's oldest known story?

• The Epic of Gilgamesh

• The Epic of Sargon

• The Epic of Hammurabi

• The Epic of Ashurbanipal

What is irrigation?

• the movement of people from one place to another

• a way of watering crops

• a collection of laws

• a river in the Middle East

A manmade way of supplying land with water.

• Aquaduct

• Irrigation

• Levee

• Waterway

An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government.

• City-State

• Civilization

• Empire

• Mesopotamia

A society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structure.

• City-State

• Empire

• Civilization

• Mesopotamia

Producing more goods or crops than needed.

• Surplus

• Merchant

• Artisan

• Scribe

A person who writes.

• Artisan

• Merchant

• Scribe

• Social Structure