Sumerians

A fertile region that stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean in a crescent shape

• Mesopotamia
• Fertile Crescent
• Egypt
• Sumer

means "Land Between the Rivers"

• Fertile Crescent
• Sumer
• peninsula
• Mesopotamia

Which is a river in the Fertile Crescent?

• Euphrates
• Tigris
• Both are correct
• Neither are correct

The world's first civilization?

• Sumer
• Mesopotamia
• Fertile Crescent
• Iraq

True or False:  The flooding of the rivers in Mesopotamia was both good and bad.

• True
• False

How do rivers help sustain life?

• Food Source
• Water Source
• Good Soil / Silt
• All are correct

How do rivers provide dangers to early civilization?

• Flooding
• Hurricanes
• Famine
• Waves

to supply water to

• sprinkle
• irrigate
• barter
• farm

independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory

• country
• civilization
• city-state
• village

trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money

• trade
• exchange
• barter
• illegal