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Hammurabi was a government leader who was responsible for creating The Code of Hammurabi, a set of ______
a) written laws
b) recipes
c) written stories
d) secret handshakes

Mesopotamia was a land between the _____ Rivers
a) Yellow and Blue
b) Tiger and Elephant
c) Tigris and Euphrates
d) Nile and Ohio

Cuneiform was the first _____
a) system of battles
b) system of writing
c) system of laws and governments
d) system of irrigation canals

The social classes in Mesopotamia had the ___ on the bottom
a) kings
b) priests
c) farmers
d) slaves

There were two types of slaves - war prisoners and ____
a) criminals
b) people sold by their families
c) farmers
d) slave families

What is polytheism?
a) a belief in one god
b) a scribe
c) a ziggurat
d) a belief in many gods

Which principle of justice does the Code of Hammurabi represent?
a) trial by jury
b) an eye for an eye
c) fighting makes it right
d) innocent until proven guilty

The ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt were similar in that both cultures
a) developed along rivers
b) used the ziggurat to form their temples
c) established trade routes to China
d) used the hieroglyphic writing system

All are true about Mesopotamia EXCEPT
a) It was located in the Fertile Crescent
b) Part of it was called Sumer
c) There was a city-state called Babylon
d) they used the rivers as a bathroom

The area around Mesopotamia is called the Fertile Crescent because
a) it has good soil for growing crops
b) it is shaped like a semi-circle
c) it is near two rivers that make it looks like a crescent shape
d) it has land that is good for agriculture and it is shaped like a semi-circle

Mesopotamia had a written language. It is called:
a) ziggurat
b) scribes
c) hieroglyphics
d) cuneiform

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