Mesopotamia

In Greek, Mesopotamia means?

• The land between 2 rivers

• The rivers between 2 lands

• The river that flows up and down

• Means wedges

What continent is Mesopotamia located on?

• Africa

• Asia

• Europe

• Iraq

When it flooded, what was left behind?

• surplus

• irrigation

• silt

• mud

A system that was created to water crops and dry land

• silt

• irrigation

• plow

• surplus

When you have extra food

• sumer

• extra food

• surplus

• irrigation

What protected the city-states from attacks?

• Giant walls

• Armies

• Rivers

• Sargon the Great

A belief in many gods

• Monotheism

• Polytheism

• Ziggurats

• Rituals

What is this an example of?

• Church

• Pyramid

• Ziggurat

• Temple

What was the earliest form of writing called?

• English

• Pictographs

• Cuneiform

• Scribe

What sea was just to the south of Mesopotamia?

• Red Sea

• Persian Gulf

• Tigris River

• Mediterranean Sea