Early River Civilizations

What geographic feature were all cities in Mesopotamia near?

• Deserts

• Mountains

• Rivers

• Oceans

Specialized Jobs

• A math term

• Everyone does the same job

• Different people do different jobs

• Social Classes

Cuneiform is the name of Mesopotamia's....

• Writing System

• Art and Entertainment

• Technology

• Government

Mesopotamia means,

• Big country

• Mashed Potatoes

• Land between two rivers

• Land outside the desert

Who was the Mesopotamian ruler who wrote laws?

• Hammurabi

• Ramses

• Sargon

• Narmer

Mesopotamia's religion had

• One god

• Many gods

Women were treated equally to men in Mesopotamia?

• True

• False

When it flooded, what was left behind?

• surplus

• irrigation

• silt

• mud

A system that was created to water crops and dry land

• silt

• irrigation

• plow

• surplus

A belief in many gods

• Monotheism

• Polytheism

• Ziggurats

• Rituals