BMMS Mesopotamia 3-1

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

• India
• Turkey
• Iraq
• Iran

 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

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

• religion
• rich soils for agriculture
• government
• mountains

 What were their homes made of?

• Tents made from animal hides
• Wood and animal hides
• Stone and bones
• Sun-dried mud 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

The word Mesopotamia means

• the land of the mountains.
• the land between two seas.
• the land between the rivers.
• the land of milk and honey.
  Palace

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

Fine, fertile soil

• Silt
• Mud
• Dirt
• Fertilizer