Mesopotamia Quiz Flashcards
According to our textbook, as early as 7,000 B.C.E, as many as ___ people were living in some of the villages in the Fertile. Crescent.
10,000
Around 5,000 years ago a new technology called ___ was developed in order to keep records.
Writing
In the 5th century B.C.E. a Greek named ___ coined the term “history”.
Herodotus
This topic is focused on the land between the ___ and ___ Rivers in a place the Greeks called ___.
Tigris, Euphrates, Mesopotamia
Michael Wood defines civilization as life in ___.
cities
A civilization composed of people known as the ___ constructed ziggurats and invented the wheel
Sumerians
The Epic of ___ is considered by many to be the world’s first literature.
Gilgamesh
In class we noted that all of the primary civilizations developed along ___.
Rivers
In class we noted that primary civilizations were ruled by a form of government known as ___.
State/Theocracy
In class we noted that all civilizations feature dome form of ___ architecture.
temple/religious/sacred
Abraham is viewed as an early ___, which means that he believed in only one God.
monotheist
Genesis 12 and 17 explain why Judaism presents Abraham as the first man to make a ___ with God.
covenant
