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What is the Fertile Crescent?
a) A large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland
b) A small arc of trees
c) A large arc of dry farmland
d) Large farmland in Turkey

What does Mesopotamia mean in Greek?
a) Fertile Land
b) A arc of fertile farm land
c) Between the rivers
d) Division of labor

What country is Mesopotamia known as today?
a) Turkey
b) Iran
c) Jordan
d) Iraq

What are the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia?
a) Mediterranean Sea and Tigris River
b) Tigris and Nile Rivers
c) Mediterranean Sea and Euphrates Rivers
d) Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

What is a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks?
a) Dirt
b) Cement
c) Mud
d) Silt

What were two types of food did the Mesopotamians grow?
a) Wheat and barley
b) Wheat and rice
c) Rice and barley
d) Wheat and corn

What does domesticated mean?
a) To race
b) To govern over
c) To tame
d) To use

What did the Mesopotamians do for food before they went into agriculture?
a) They were hunter-gathers.
b) They were craftmen.
c) They were traders.
d) They were fishermen.

What is a way of supplying water to an area?
a) making dikes
b) making an irrigation system
c) making canals
d) using a hose

About how long ago did Mesopotamia form?
a) 7000
b) 2000 BC
c) 2017
d) 7000 BC

After the Mesopotamians successfully started farming, they ended up having a __________ of food.
a) lack
b) surplus
c) variety
d) bundle

What is it when there is an arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job?
a) Job
b) Division of labor
c) Agriculture
d) Boss

Why was Mesopotamia's land so fertile?
a) They planted soybeans.
b) The Tigris and Euphrates rivers flooded leaving rich soil.
c) They traded.
d) By growing corn.

What are some other types of food the Mesopotamians ate?
a) Fish, meat, and dates
b) Fish, meat, and pizza
c) Fish, pork, and dates
d) Beef, meat, and dates

What was the major occupation of Sumer?
a) craftmen
b) sailors
c) agriculture
d) priests

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