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WH Chapter 2 The Fertile Crescent 1
Test Description: The Fertile Crescent part 1
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What is silt?
A
Long periods without rain.
B
Loose soil carried by water.
C
The wearing away of soil by wind or water.
2) What is a drought?
A
The wearing away of soil by wind or water.
B
Long periods without rain.
C
Loose soil carried by water.
3) What is erosion?
A
Loose soil carried by water.
B
Long periods without rain.
C
The wearing away of soil by wind or water.
4) How were northern and southern Mesopotamia different?
A
The people of Northern Mesopotamia were farmers and the people of Southern Mesopotamia were sailors.
B
The people of Northern Mesopotamia worshipped one god and the people of Southern Mesopotamia worshipped many gods.
C
Northern Mesopotamia had a lot of rain and bad soil and Southern Mesopotamia had not enough rain but good soil.
5) Where is Mesopotamia?
A
In East Asia.
B
In southern Texas, near Mexico.
C
Between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
6) How did the Tigris and Euphrates rivers affect life in Mesopotamia?
A
The rivers flooded so people were not able to live there and the land was useless.
B
When the rivers flooded they left behind silt that made the soil good for farming.
C
The rivers allowed sailors to trade up and down the river.
7) How did Mesopotamian farmers alter their environment?
A
They laid roads through the good farmland in order to move more easily.
B
They learned to build homes on stilts so that they could survive the flooding.
C
They planted crops along the rivers.
8) What is irrigation?
A
The artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.
B
A self-governing city that governs nearby villages.
C
One of the earliest writings in the world.
9) What is cuneiform?
A
One of the earliest writings in the world.
B
A self-governing city that governs nearby villages.
C
The artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.
10) What is a city-state?
A
A self-governing city that governs nearby villages.
B
One of the earliest writings in the world.
C
The artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.
11) How did the lives of poor Sumerians compare to the lives of the wealthy?
A
Poor families have to work but wealthy families could own land and have servants.
B
The wealthy families took care of the poor families.
C
The poor and wealthy families had similar lives because equality was important to the Sumerians.
12) How did the wheel improve farming and trade?
A
The wheel improved farming and trade by making it easier to move people and stuff.
B
The wheel made it easier to make the pulley system work that ran the irrigation system.
C
The wheel didn’t make life easier because people fought over it.
13) Which action is most closely associated with the early Mesopotamian civilizations?
A
Developing a writing system using cuneiform.
B
Building floating gardens to grow corn.
C
Establishing representative democracies.
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