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The Fertile Crescent Part 1.
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What is silt?
a) Loose soil carried by water.
b) Long periods without rain.
c) The wearing away of soil by wind or water.
d)
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.
d)
What is erosion?
a) The wearing away of soil by wind or water.
b) Long periods without rain.
c) Loose soil carried by water.
d)
How were northern and southern Mesopotamia different?
a) Northern Mesopotamia had a lot of rain and bad soil and Southern Mesopotamia had not enough rain but good soil.
b) The people of Northern Mesopotamia were farmers and the people of Southern Mesopotamia were sailors.
c) The people of Northern Mesopotamia worshipped one god and the people of Southern Mesopotamia worshipped many gods.
d)
Where is Mesopotamia?
a) Between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
b) In East Asia.
c) In southern Texas, near Mexico.
d)
How did the Tigris and Euphrates rivers affect life in Mesopotamia?
a) When the rivers flooded they left behind silt that made the soil good for farming.
b) The rivers flooded so people were not able to live there and the land was useless.
c) The rivers allowed sailors to trade up and down the river.
d)
How did Mesopotamian farmers alter their environment?
a) They planted crops along the rivers.
b) They learned to build homes on stilts so that they could survive the flooding.
c) They laid roads through the good farmland in order to move more easily.
d)
What is irrigation?
a) The artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.
b) One of the earliest writings in the world.
c) A self-governing city that governs nearby villages.
d)
What is cuneiform?
a) One of the earliest writings in the world.
b) The artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.
c) A self-governing city that governs nearby villages.
d)
What is a city-state?
a) One of the earliest writings in the world.
b) The artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.
c) A self-governing city that governs nearby villages.
d)
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 poor and wealthy families had similar lives because equality was important to the Sumerians.
c) The wealthy families took care of the poor families.
d)
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.
d)
Which action is most closely associated with the early Mesopotamian civilizations?
a) Developing a writing system using cuneiform.
b) Establishing representative democracies.
c) Building floating gardens to grow corn.
d)
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