Geography
Mesopotamia is located in these modern day countries?
What is Iraq and Iran
A society that has cities, a central government, and specialized workers, Social classes, religion and writing form is known as a_________.
an empire
Believing in many Gods is called ______.
What is Polytheism?
Why can it be dangerous to live near a river?
A. too much boat traffic
B. earthquakes
C. bad soil
D. floods
d. floods
The few Sumerians who learned how to write often became scribes, holding high positions in society.
true
Mesopotamia is sometimes known as the _____ Crescent because of its soil and shape.
What is Fertile?
A. a city within a state’s borders.
B. a city that is forced to pay tribute to a state.
C. a city that is a capital of a state.
D. a city and its surrounding land that has its own government and ruler
D. a city and its surrounding land that has its own government and ruler
A temple on a pyramid-shaped tower is _______.
A Ziggurat
Mesopotamia was located between what two rivers?
A. Tigris and Nile
B. Tigris and Mali
C. Tigris and Eurasia
D. Tigris and Euphrates
D. Tigris and Euphrates
Mesopotamia is called the “cradle of civilization” because it is located in the Fertile Crescent
False. because the ideas and inventions of the Sumerians were copied and improved upon by other people.
Which body of water is a sea....the Nile, the Mediterranean, the Euphrates, or the Tigris?
The Mediterranean
What is the name of the first form of writing?
cuneiform
Sanskrit
Calligraphy
Hieroglypics
cuneiform
In ancient Sumer each city-state had a ziggurat where people went to _________.
Worship a special God.
The Sumerians believed in
A. no gods.
B. one god.
C. many gods.
D. Catholicism.
C. Many gods
The economy in which people trade products or services for others that have an equal value is a barter economy
true
Which two rivers run the length of the fertile crescent?
Tigris and Euphrates
A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams
What is irrigation?
Only ____ were allowed to enter the top of the ziggurat.
special priests
Hammurabi’s Code was important because
A. it was based on oral traditions.
B. Babylonia ruled the ancient world.
C. the laws treated everyone the same.
D. for the first time, laws were written down and penalties were given for breaking them
D. for the first time, laws were written down and penalties were given for breaking them
Hammurabi created the first empire in Mesopotamia.
False. Sargon created the first empire in Mesopotamia.
Mesopotamia means the land __________
between the two rivers
A person who copies or writes out documents; often a record keeper
What is a scribe?
The word ziggurat means_______.
to rise high.
Why were the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers important to the economy of early civilizations?
A. They supplied power to grain mills.
B. They had rich soil along their riverbanks making them excellent for farming.
C. They were sacred sites of the gods.
D. They often flooded causing the deaths of many people.
B. They had rich soil along their riverbanks making them excellent for farming.
Sargon was the Babylonian ruler who established the first set of written laws
False. Hammurabi was the ruler who established the first set of written laws.