Fertile Crescent

Ancient Mesopotamia existed between what two rivers? 

• Tigris and Nile
• Euphrates and Nile
• Amazon and Nile
• Tigris and Euphrates

A ________ is a half moon shape. 

• Circle
• Diameter
• Crescent
• Sphere

_______ means "land between two rivers." 

• Crescent
• Euphrates
• Tigris
• Mesopotamia

The first ______ communities were in the Middle East.

• farming
• trading
• writing
• civilized

The areas between Mesopotamia, Canaan, and Egypt were mostly ______. 

• forest
• desert
• ocean
• fertile

_________ was first used in Mesopotamia, which helped give them a surplus of food.

• Wind
• Irrigation
• Sickles
• Shovels

Each city-state had it's own ________. 

• farms
• animals
• food
• government

Trade in the Fertile Crescent represented a _____ economy. 

• traditional
• communist
• capatilist
• mixed

The _____ aided the people of the Fertile Crescent in trade. 

• wheel
• donkey
• irrigation system
• coin

Ur was an example of a _____ in Mesopotamia.

• village
• town
• city-state
• empire