4) Choose the best answer.

______ is the language, customs, ideas, and art of a community.

Habitat

Civilization

Culture

Biome



6) Choose the best answer.

______ means "the land between the rivers."

Babylon

Mesopotamia

Assyria



3) Choose the best answer.

A _______ is a community that has reached an advanced level of development.

state

town

civilization



5) Choose the best answer.

The _____ was a large, curved area with good farming land.

Great Circle

Fertile Crescent

Farm Belt



8) Choose the best answer.

Mesopotamia was also known as the "the ______ of civilization."

nursery

cradle

spawn point



7) Choose the best answer.

What TWO rivers were in Mesopotamia?

Yellow

Nile

Tigris

Euphrates

Ganges



1) Choose the best answer.

Many historians believe _____ languages were used before written language.

complex

spoken

sign

sung



10) Choose the best answer.

Which statement does NOT describe Mesopotamian culture?

They created laws to govern the people

They were the first to use the wheel.

They played board games.

They were the first civilization to use gunpowder.



2) Choose the best answer.

What was one of the first forms of written language?

cuneiform

Sanskrit

French



9) Choose the best answer.

______ used cuneiform for their records.

Egyptians

Sumerians

Turks

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Here are the best answers for each question:

  1. Culture is the language, customs, ideas, and art of a community.

  2. Mesopotamia means "the land between the rivers."

  3. A civilization is a community that has reached an advanced level of development.

  4. The Fertile Crescent was a large, curved area with good farming land.

  5. Mesopotamia was also known as the "the cradle of civilization."

  6. The TWO rivers in Mesopotamia were the Tigris and Euphrates.

  7. Many historians believe spoken languages were used before written language.

  8. The statement that does NOT describe Mesopotamian culture is: They were the first civilization to use gunpowder.

  9. One of the first forms of written language was cuneiform.

  10. Sumerians used cuneiform for their records.