Mesopotamia Review

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

• Hammurabi
• Gilgamesh
• Nebuchadnezzar
• Ninevah

Match the following

• Rulers were appointed by gods

• Monotheism

• Kings or Queens that pass power down to their children

• Theocracy

• A religion that believes in one god

• City-State

• A city that is an independent nation

• Polytheism

• A religion that believes in many gods

• Monarchy

What are skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery called?

• Priests

• Artisans

• Scribes

• Heroes

What was the Sumerian writing system called?

• Sargon

• Cyrillian

• Cuneiform

• Hieroglyphics

Grand temple with a shrine at the top.

• Irrigation

• Nomads

• Ziggurat

• Scribes

Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops is called?

• Irrigation

• Nomads

• Ziggurat

• Scribes

Record keepers who often kept records for government officials

• irrigation

• nomads

• ziggurat

• scribes

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

Hammurabi's punishments were based on the idea of...

• Punishment brings peace

• An eye for an eye

• If you build me a house that collapses, you owe me your life

• Innocent until proven guilty

Lower class

• Enslaved people

• Fishers

• Kings