Mesopotamia

The geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers is called?

• Sumer
• Mesopotamia
• levee
• Iran

What was an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government ?

• City-State
• Civilization
• Social Structure
• Ziggurat

What is a complex society with religion, government, learning, division of labor, and a stable food supply?

• city-state
• colony
• civilization
• status

Mesopotamia’s climate was

• tropical  
• cold
• temperate       
• hot and dry     

A form of writing that uses groups of wedges and lines written on soft clay. It originated in Mesopotamia.

• city-state

• scribes

• cuneiform

• ziggurat

What is a seven story temple built to honor their chief god?

• ziggurat
• city-state
• colony
• palace

Sumerians worshiped and believed in more than one god.  What is this called?

• monotheism
• empire
• worship
• polytheism

Name the first Mesopotamian city.

• Ur

• Uruk

• Sumer

• Akkad

What is an irrigation system used for?  

• To travel between city-states
• To build sand structures
• To move water from a river to a crop
• To control flooding

Fertile means...  

• soil that is good for growing plant life
• soil that is sandy
• soil that is rocky
• soil that is too dry for crops