Mesopotamia Geography & Sumererians

The region of Mesopotamia is located in the present-day country of ?

• India
• Russia
• Iraq
• China

 What river or rivers were important to the civilizations of Mesopotamia?

• Nile River
• Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
• Amazon River
• Yellow and Yangtze Rivers

What was the first human civilization formed?

• Sumer
• Babylonia
• Assyria
• Greek

What does the greek word Mesopotamia mean?

• Fruit tree
• The Big Hill
• Two Rivers
• Palace

River Valleys were a good place for civilizations to grow because they offered

• religion
• rich soils for agriculture
• government
• 401k's

A ziggurat is?

• A war tactic
• A writing system 
• A Temple
• A Sumerian chariot

 What were their homes made of?

• Tents made from animal hides
• Wood
• Stone
• Sun-dried bricks

Why was Mesopotamia also called the Fertile Crescent?

• It was a crescent cookie
• good water
• had rich soil and was shaped as a crescent
• it was in Iraq

How did the Sumerians solve the problem of flooding?

• They rotated farming with nomadic herding.
• They used gated ditches and levees.
• They built terraces on the mountains.
• They diverted the flow of the rivers into other areas.

The system of levees and canals used to divert water to crops is called __.

• Irrigation
• Agriculture
• specialization
• ziggurats