Ancient Mesopotamia (pre-Hammurabi)

Mesopotamia is located between what 2 rivers?

• Choptank and Pocomoke Rivers

• Persian Gulf and Euphrates Rivers

• Euphrates and Tigris Rivers

• Tigris River and Persian Gulf

What made it so Hunter/Gatherers started living in permanent settlements?

• Better tools

• Agriculture

• Delicious Mammoth stew

• Ice Age

Mesopotamians traded food to other areas for their resources due to...

• Surplus food

• Military strength

• Hammurabi's code

• Specialization

What is it called when people are able to perform different jobs, not just farming?

• Irrigation

• Domestication

• Migration

• Specialization

When the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flood, what helped control the water?

• Irrigation

• Social Structure

• Ziggurat

• Polytheism

The political unit where people live in the town and countryside around it is called...?

• Migration

• City-State

• Ziggurat

• Irrigation

The large temples in the center of cities devoted to their protector god

• Polytheism

• Ziggurat

• Irrigation

• Cuneiform

What is the world's first written language called?

• English

• Spanish

• Pictographs

• Cuneiform

Mesopotamia is located in modern day...?

• America

• Iraq

• Syria

• Iran

What is an invention of Sumer?

• plow

• wheel

• cylinder seal

• All of the above!