Mesopotamia

Why do they call it the Fertile Crescent?

• because the women had a lot of babies

• because the animals had a lot of babies

• because the moon was in a crescent form all of the time

• The land was fertile and shaped like a crescent moon.

What is polytheism?

• an amphibian with many legs

• the worship of many gods

• the worship of one god

• the worship of no god/gods

What is a ziggurat?

• a tomb for the king

• a temple where the priests worshiped their gods

• a temple where the priests performed human sacrifices

• a Mesopotamian cigarett.

Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers?

• the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean
• the Tigris and the Persian Gulf
• the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates
• the Euphrates and the Tigris

Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?

• Gilgamesh
• Hammarabui
• Nineveh
• Sargon

Which of the following is  NOT true of Hammurabi's code?

• It covered many aspects of Babylonian life, not just crimes.
• t was used by many later civilizations as a model
• It treated all people the same under the law.
• It was carved in stone.

What was the main religion of the Sumerians?

• Monotheism
• Christianity
• Polytheism
• Judaism

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State
• Country
• Villiage
• Culture

Who is featured here atop the stele of laws that they enacted?

• Nebuchanezzer and Gilgmesh

• Sumer and Ahkadian

• Hammurabi and Shamash

• Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs.

What is the difference between Prehistoric society and Mesopotamian society?

• Prehistoric people were hunter gatherers, Mesopotamian people were farmers.

• Prehistoric people did not leave written history, Mesopotamian people left extensive writings.

• Prehistoric people made artwork primarily about animals, Mesopotamian people made art about many subjects.

• Prehistoric people were nomads, Mesopotamian people built cities and lived in them.

• All of these