The following rivers were located in Ancient Mesopotamia.
Choices: Mississippi R., Tigris R., Yellow R., Amazon R., Euphrates R., Susquehanna R., Monongahela R.
What is the Tigris River and the Euphrates River?
100
This area in southern Mesopotamia is the world's oldest known civilization where many city-states developed.
Choices: Babylon, Sumer, Persia, Greece, Sparta
What is Sumer?
100
This leader was the first to unite all of Mesopotamia under one rule, creating the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
100
This is a type of religion that believes in multiple gods.
What is polytheism?
100
This is a city that functions like a country. It makes its own laws and doesn't answer to a higher governmental body.
What is a city-state?
200
This is the curved shaped area that some of the first civilizations settled in due to it's fertile land that was good for farming.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
This is one way Mesopotamians improved their success in farming.
What is irrigation and/or the plow?
200
Hammurabi was a leader who is best known for this.
What is Hammurabi's Law Code?
200
This is the temple that each city-state built to their chief god.
What is a Ziggurat?
200
This is a person who creates tools and items such as pottery, cloth, baskets, etc.
What is an artisan?
300
Ancient Mesopotamia is an area of land that borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west and this body of water to the east.
What is the Persian Gulf?
300
The Sumerian writing was written on this.
What is clay tablets
300
Hammurabi was a ruler of what empire?
What is the first Babylonian empire?
300
This was done to please the gods.
What is offer sacrifices.
400
The Greeks came up with the name "Mesopotamia" which means this.
What is "the land between two rivers"?
400
This Ancient Mesopotamian invention was one that we greatly rely on for all sorts of transportation today.
What is the wheel?
400
A group from the north overtook the Sumerian city-states, and their leader, Sargon, helped unite Mesopotamia. Sargon the Great is from this group of people.
Choices: Akkadians, Armenians, Babylonians, Assyrians
Who are the Akkadians?
400
This is a type of religion that believes there is only one god.
What is monotheism?
400
This is when a ruler overtakes other lands and the whole area is controlled by that ruler.
What is an empire?
500
Ancient Mesopotamia was located in this current day country.
What is Iraq?
500
This is the name of the world's first known writing system.
What is cuneiform?
500
The first library was built in Nineveh under this empire.
Choices: Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, or Assyrian
What is the Assyrian empire?
500
These are the only people allowed into the holy area where the shrine was located.
Who is a priest or preistess?
500
This is one contribution the Mesopotamians gave in the field of Mathematics.
What is base 60 used in time and/or the 12 month calendar?