Mesopotamia Quiz

Crops grow well near a river because all of the following EXCEPT

• there's water available
• occasional flooding
• fish remains
• rich soil near a river

Mesopotamia means the land between the ____

• deserts
• mountains
• rivers
• lakes

What do you call the large arc of rich and fertile farmland?

• Fertile Circle
• Fertile Crescent
• Fresh Crescent
• Fresh Rivers

What do you call a way of supplying water to an area of land?

• canals
• flooding
• watering
• irrigation

Controlling water with irrigation allowed farmers to _____ which meant that fewer people needed to ____.

• grow more food; farm
• take more breaks; work
• water food less; harvest
• stress less/ worry

Because fewer people needed to farm, people could start to ____, which helped societies accomplish more.

• eat more
• do other jobs
• grow more food
• hunt less

Who developed the first civilization in Mesopotamia?

• Akkadians

• Sumerians
• Mesopotamians
• Egyptians

Because societies in Sumer were made up of the city and the surrounding countryside, they were called ____.

• urban areas

• city-states
• country-states
• city-urbans

Each city-state's ____ strength influenced how much ____ it controlled.

• military; food
  

• religious; land
• military; land
• religious;food

Land = _________

• Money
• Strength
• Power
• Judgment