Unit 2 - Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia was located between the ________ and Euphrates Rivers.

• Tigris
• Nile
• Congo
• Amazon

Mesopotamia is located in the country that we now know as ________.

• Iraq
• Iran
• Turkey
• Syria

The people of Mesopotamia used dams and levees to control the water from the rivers for ________.

• irrigation
• agriculture
• surplus
• civilization

________ is fertile soil that is deposited in the floodplain.

• silt
• sand
• stylus
• cuneiform

The ________ on either side of the rivers was often the best place for farming because it was flat and full of fertile soil.

• floodplain
• prairie
• delta
• tundra

Mesopotamia had a ________ climate and received very little rainfall each year.

• semiarid
• tropical
• temperate
• subarctic

Due to the fact that floods and ________ were unpredictable, irrigation was important for farming.

• droughts
• tsunamis
• earthquakes
• volcanic eruptions

Most historians believe that _______ was the world's first civilization and that it rose in Mesopotamia about 3000 BC.

• Sumer
• Egypt
• Rome
• Greece

Sumerians used ________, or pictures, on clay tokens for tracking trade as an early form of record keeping.

• pictographs
• scribes
• cursive
• cuneiform

Sumer had at least 12 different ________ and each one ruled itself.

• city-states
• villages
• countries
• counties