Regents Review Mesopotamia

Name of the geographical area between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers.

• Mesopotamia
• Greece

• Egypt

• America

Why did most early civilizations grow up near rivers?

• The wanted to learn to swim

• because they needed water for agriculture    

• They were born there

List the 5 Ancient Mesopotamian civilizations in chronological order.

• Persia, Chaldea, Assyria, Babylon, Sumer

• Assyria, Sumer, Persia, Babylon, Chaldea

• Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Chaldea, Persia

Political arrangement of Sumer, in which each city governed itself.

• cities

• states

• governor

• city-states    

Pictographic alphabet used by various people in Mesopotamia.

• cuneiform    

• sign language

• hieroglyphs

Name of the first written code of law, which was created in Babylon.

• The Constitution

• Hammurabi’s Code    

• The 10 Commantments

Chaldean king who wanted to revive the traditions of the Babylonians.

• King Herod

• King Charles

• Nebuchadnezzar

Persian king who began conquering an empire in order to spread Zoroastrianism.

• Edward

• Ceasar

• Charles

• Cyrus    

Persian king who divided the empire into satrapies, making it more efficient to administer

• Darius
• Ceasar

• Herod

• Edward

Type of economy in which money is not used; people trade goods directly for other goods

• token economy

• barter

• market

• command