Mesopotamia/Arabia/Iraq Unit Review

Believing in only one God

These popped up along rivers and became the centers of civilizations

True/False: Hammurabi created a set of 282 laws

Most people live in cities

Islam's Holy Book

Sumerians invented all of the following except: wheel, plow, sailboat, calendar, and rice farms

True/False: Sumer did not have any class divisions

The flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers could be described as:

True/False: A city-state had its own gov't and was not part of any larger unit

True/False: Sargon conquered all of Mesopotamia creating the world's first empire

The Sumerians could make flour out of this plant and wine out of this other plant.

The world's first ( ) were developed in what would be modern day Iraq.

A source of energy that comes from ancient, decomposed organisms

True/False: the farmers did not learn how to control the flood waters

Islamic political and religious leader

More than half

The removal of salt from sea water

Believing in multiple gods

Cuneiform was usually written using:

True/False: The flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers brought rich, fertile soil or silt.

The writing system created by the Mesopotamians was called:

A civilization would have which of the following characteristics:

The artificial supply of water to agricultural land.

Sunni believed that Muhammad's father-in-law should be the next Caliph

The first major civilization in Mesopotamia was in a region called:

True/False: Mesopotamia refers to "The land between two rivers"

The Epic of Gilgamesh was based on a real Sumerian king who lived around 2700 BC

Shia believed that Muhammad's son should be the next Caliph