Vocab Practice DFA 1

Which word means "a region with good conditions for growing crops that stretched from the Mediterranean coast east through Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf"?

• Stele

• Fertile Crescent

• Bureaucracy

• Papyrus

Which word means "a wide, flat plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq"?

• Mesopotamia

• Ziggurat

• Monotheism

• Hieroglyphic

Which word means "worship of many gods or deities"?

• Polytheism

• Monotheism

• Rule of Law

• Cultural Trait

Which word means "a brick, pyramid-shaped Mesopotamian temple"?

• Ziggurat

• Stele

• Papyrus

• Cuneiform

Which word means "a Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for ideas or things"?

• Cuneiform

• Hieroglyphic

• Papyrus

• Bureaucracy

Which word means "an idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture"?

• Cultural Trait

• Rule of Law

• Hammurabi’s Code

• Ziggurat

Which word means "a set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian Empire"?

• Hammurabi’s Code

• Stele

• Monotheism

• Papyrus

Which word means "the idea that all members of a society must obey the law"?

• Rule of Law

• Polytheism

• Bureaucracy

• Cuneiform

Which word means "a carved stone slab or pillar that stands on end"?

• Stele

• Papyrus

• Ziggurat

• Hieroglyphic

Which word means "the belief that there is only one God"?

• Monotheism

• Polytheism

• Rule of Law

• Cultural Trait