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Who was the ruler who first united Sumer
Hammurabi
David
Sargon
King Mr. Hicks
2
A Sumerian temple is called a
church
ziggurat
pyramid
I give up
3
What is Hammurabi's code?
cuneiform
written laws
a ham sandwich
surplus
4
What is a word for having more than you need?
surplus
awesome
cuneiform
greedy
5
What was the code written on?
King Hammurabi's Back
Paper duh
Diorite Stele
Clay tablets
6
What geographic features were labeled on Mesopotamia your map?
Plateaus
Mountains
Deserts
Rivers
7
How many focus areas do you have for me this year?
7
8
4
12
8
Why was the land in Mesopotamia good for farming?
There were a lot of animals to domesticate
It was far away from water
There was silt and rich soil
Pigs could fly
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The Sumerian system of writing is
cuneiform
hieroglyphics
What's writing?
English
10
Mesopotamians used ______________ as a way of getting water to their crops
surplus
They took the water, and moved it somewhere else
Irrigation canals
Lots of buckets
11
Why were walls built around city states?
To hide their cool stuff
Protection from invasions
To keep them shaded from the sun
Cause their king wanted to build a wall
12
How many laws were in Hammurabi's code?
282
149
100
1
13
What types of laws were included in Hammurabi's code?
Jaywalking
Religious
Business
Slavery
14
What is NOT a geographic feature?
Mississippi River
Sequioa Trees
The Great Wall of China
Mt. Everest
15
What civilization was Hammurabi from?
Babylonian
Assyrian
Canadian
Sumerian
16
What warrior people were thought to be the cruelest group living in Mesopotamia?
Assyria
China
Babylon
Sumer
17
Mesopotamia was located between which two major bodies of water?
Black Sea and Caspian Sea
Persian Gulf and Red Sea
Persian gulf and Mediterranean Sea
Arctic Circle and the Equator
18
Sumerian society was organized into ______________ which consisted of a city and its surrounding areas
Dictatorship
Monarchy
Polytheism
City states
19
What were the two rivers in Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
Nile and Jordan
Ohio and Tigris
Euphrates and Cuyahoga
20
People before farming in the Fertile Crescent were called
Non-farmers
Hunter Gatherers
Neolithic
losers
21
What does the word Mesopotamia mean?
Land between two rivers
Land between a cheeseburger
Words have meanings?
The fertile crescent
22
The Assyrians had the most fearsome
air force
army
farming techniques
monkeys (throwing poop is pretty scary right?)
23
Sumerian had a king... what type of government is that?
Democracy
Monarchy
Dictatorship
Polytheism
24
Thanksgiving question: What is the traditional meal?
Ham
Turkey
Gingerbread
Sushi
25
Religion and ___________ were closely related in Mesopotamia
Assyria
Politics
South Park
Farming
26
Where did South Park say the pilgrims came from in their Thanksgiving episode?
They were aliens
Australia
England
Why does my teacher watch South Park?
27
What was a Sumerian innovation?
Wheel
Tacos
Military tactics
A code of law
28
What does polytheism mean?
To believe in one god or goddess
To believe in more than one god or goddess
The area of a polygon
Farming!
29
What was the last capital of the Assyrian civilization?
Ashur
Uruk
Nineveh
Ur
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Mesopotamia was located in the modern day country of
Greece
Iraq
India
Egypt
