Mesopotamia

WHAT WORD MEANS A CITY AND ALL THE COUNTRYSIDE AROUND IT?

• social hierarchy

• government

• city state

WHAT DOES THE WORD MESOPOTAMIA MEAN?

• land between the deserts

• land between the mountains

• land between the rivers

WHO WAS THE WORLD'S FIRST EMPEROR?

• Sargon

• Hammurabi

• Gilgamesh

WHICH INVENTION FROM MESOPOTAMIA PROBABLY STARTED FROM MAKING POTTERY?

• cuneiform

• the wheel

• irrigation

MESOPOTAMIANS BELIEVED THEIR GODS HAD GREAT POWER OVER THEIR LIVES

• False

• True

WHAT DO WE CALL THE RICH SOIL DEPOSITED BY A RIVER?

• irrigation

• Gilgamesh

• silt

WHAT TWO RIVERS FLOW THROUGH MESOPOTAMIA?

• Tigris River and Euphrates River

• Mississippi River and Missouri River

• Yellow River and Xi River

WHAT LEGENDARY KING OF MESOPOTAMIA HAD LATER EPIC STORIES WRITTEN ABOUT HIS GREAT ADVENTURES?

• Sargon

• Hammurabi

• Gilgamesh

WHICH INVENTION OF MESOPOTAMIA IS STILL USED TODAY TO HELP BREAK UP SOIL FOR PLANTING?

• irrigation

• plow

• wheel

HAMMURABI'S LAWS WERE WRITTEN DOWN SO PEOPLE COULD VIEW THE LAWS FOR THEMSELVES

• TRUE

• FALSE