Land
What does Mesopotamia mean?
a. Land of inventions
b. Land of laws
c. Land between rivers
c. Land between rivers
What did the Mesopotamians invent to help make pottery?
a. Chariot
b. Pottery wheel
c. Irrigation
b. Pottery wheel
a. Ziggurats
b. Banks
c. Castles
a. Ziggurats
What was the first civilization in Mesopotamia?
a. Sumerians
b. Babylonians
c. Assyrians
a. Sumerians
What do you call a city and the farmland around it?
a. City-state
b. Country
c. Province
a City-state
What two rivers are in Mesopotamia?
a. Mississippi and Missouri
b. Euphrates and Tigris
c. Rhine and Danube
b. Euphrates and Tigris
What did Mesopotamians invent to keep records?
a. Wheel
b. Ziggurat
c. Cuneiform
c. Cuneiform
How many gods did Mesopotamians believe in?
a. One
b. More than one
c. None
b. More than one
What is an empire?
a. A school with 3 principals
b. One city ruled by many people
c. Many cities ruled by one person
c. Many cities ruled by one person
What was Hammurabi's code?
a. a collection of laws
b. A secret message
c. a math problem
a. a collection of laws
What do you call mud or clay deposited by a river?
a. Soil
b. Silt
c. Dirt
b. Silt
What did irrigation do?
a. bring water to farms
b. make pottery
c. show what time it is
a. bring water to farms
Where did the Mesopotamians think gods lived?
a. In heaven
b. In the ground
c. In Ziggurats
c. in Ziggurats
Who was the king of Babylon?
a. Mr. McDonough
b. Hammurabi
c. Gilgamesh
b. Hammurabi
What kind of government did Mesopotamians have?
a. Democracy
b. Everyone ruled
c. Empire
c. Empire
What area is Mesopotamia in?
a. United States
b. Healthy Croissant
c. Fertile Crescent
c. Fertile Crescent
What did Mesopotamians invent to help them farm?
a. Shovel
b. Rake
c. Plow
c. Plow
Why were priests important in Mesopotamia?
a. They made food
b. They spoke to the gods
c. They built houses
b. They spoke to the gods
What was the first empire in Mesopotamia
a. Egyptians
b. Chinese
c. Akkadians
c. Akkadians
a. Social circle
b. Social pyramid
c. Social square
b. Social pyramid