Lesson 4 - Geographic Challenges

What does Mesopotamia mean?

• between the hills

• between two rivers

• among the people

• site of early cities

Why were Sumerian cities called city-states? Each city had their own...

• government

• farmland

• river

• lake

Mesopotamian people moved from the Zagros foothills to...

• the river valley

• higher up in the hills

The Sumerians used dams to...

• control travel between the city-states.

• store water to use later.

• catch more fish.

• protect their city-state.

Why were levees used in ancient Sumer?

• to prevent the river from flooding

• to load fishing boats

• to irrigate crops

• to fill moats

Why did Sumerian villages rely on each other?

• they needed to team up for trading purposes

• they needed to exchange different natural resources

• they needed to protect each other from eastern empires

• they needed to help build and maintain the complex irrigation systems

Which two rivers flooded to create the fertile soil in Mesopotamia?

• Tigris

• Mississippi

• Nile

• Euphrates

• Amazon

Which modern day country is located in Ancient Mesopotamia today?

• Iran

• United Arab Emirates

• Iraq

• Saudi Arabia

Sumer transformed from small _________ to city-states.

• citie

• caves

• villages

• lakes

Sumer transformed from small villages to ______________.

• villages

• caves

• castles

• city-states