Mesopotamia

Question 1

A complex society made up of city’s , organized government, art, religion, class division , and writing system

Answer 1

Civilization

Question 2

Irrigation

Answer 2

Method of bringing water to a field from another place to water crops

Question 3

Astisan

Answer 3

Skilled craftsmen

Question 4

Sumerian system of writing made up of wedge shaped markings

Answer 4

Cuneiform

Question 5

Scribe

Answer 5

Record keeper

Question 6

Empire

Answer 6

Group of territory’s under a single ruler or government

Question 7

Monotheism

Answer 7

One God

Question 8

Polytheism

Answer 8

Many gods

Question 9

A grand temple

Answer 9

Ziggurat

Question 10

Kind of Akkadians

Answer 10

Sargon

Question 11

King of Babylon

Answer 11

Hammurabi

Question 12

Hammurabi was famous for

Answer 12

Law code

Question 13

Code was far

Answer 13

Brought order and justice to society

Touched every aspect of life

Question 14

Code was cruel

Answer 14

Allowed no explanation from a accuser

Different punishments for different class structure

Question 15

What body of water do the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers flow

Answer 15

Persial gulf

Question 16

What four bodies of water were important to the Fertile Crescent

Answer 16

Persial gulf
Mediterranean
Tigris
Euphrates

Question 17

What is Mesopotamia mean in Greek

Answer 17

Between the river

Question 18

Where is this area today

Answer 18

Iraq

Question 19

What are three main reasons why the first Civilization arose in river valley

Answer 19

Good for farming, freshwater, fish, easy to trade

Question 20

What did early governments do

Answer 20

Food supplies, made laws, assembled in army

Question 21

Give at least three inventions developed by the ancient Sumerians

Answer 21

Cuneiform
Tools
Plow