Civilizations
This is both written and spoken
What is language?
This river is on the eastern edge of Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris River?
This ancient form of writing contained wedge-shapes and was invented by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
This nickname for Ancient Mesopotamia is due to its location between two bodies of water.
What is "The Land Between Two Rivers"?
Answers may vary. List three inventions attributed to the Sumerians.
Wheel, Cosmetic sets, Razors, Time measurements using 60, Hammers, Axes, Kilns, Sailboats, Written Language, Superhero ;)
This was well organized and in Ancient Mesopotamia, used a zigurrat as its center
What is religion?
This river is on the western edge of Ancient Mesopotamia.
What is the Euphrates River?
Of the four classes in Ancient Sumer, which one is missing in the following list? Lower class, upper class, slaves.
Who are the priests?
This nickname for Ancient Mesopotamia is due to its shape and its lush vegetation.
What is "The Fertile Crescent"?
Name one of the deserts bordering the Euphrates River.
What is the _____________ Desert?
This helped them organize themselves around a day and time.
What is a shared calendar?
This ancient city is the most southern of the three we studied on the map.
What is Ur?
These stone temples were the center of Ancient Mesopotamian towns.
What are ziggurats?
This nickname for Ancient Mesopotamia refers to the fact the western civilization was birthed here.
What is "The Cradle of Western Civilization"?
Name a desert bordering Ancient Mesopotamia to the west.
What is ______________ Desert?
Along with the arts, this aspect added both beauty and detail to their construction.
What is architecture?
This city is just north of Ur on the map.
What is Uruk?
This king became something of an ancient-day superhero, and legends were written about him.
Who is Gilgamesh?
This is not on the quiz. These gates were ornamented with bulls and dragons and led into the city of Babylon.
What are the Ishtar Gates?
(Not on the quiz) The reason the Phoenicians got their name.
What is from the color of dye made from a Mediterranean shellfish?
This word is associated with a stable food supply in that it refers to the growth of plants and crops in a given area
What is agriculture?
This ancient city was once ruled by Hammurabi.
What is Babylon?
What we call the defining borders that are made by rivers, lakes, deserts, etc.
What are natural boundaries?
(This is not on the quiz.)
Who is Marduk?
(Not on the quiz) The two main reasons we should remember the Phoenicians
What is because they created a simple alphabet that replaced cuneiform and because they spread Middle Eastern culture and products around the entire known world at the time?