Mesopotamia Nomads to Farmers

What was the first thing the Sumerians got really good at?

• hunting and gathering

• farming and agriculture

• building pyramids

• exploration

What does Mesopotamia mean?

• land of the gods

• land of the mountains

• middle earth

• land between two rivers

Why was Sumer such a good location for farming?

• it was located in a river valley

• many animals lived there

• an abundance of food

• many people to farm the land

What do the rivers leave behind that make the land good for growing crops?

• irrigation

• water for crops

• rich soil

• water plants

What did the Sumerians build to control the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

• villages

• levees

• city-states

• ziggurats

What tool did the Sumerians develop that helped them plant?

• pitch fork

• chariot

• hammer

• plow

What was their system of writing called?

• cuneiform

• greek

• hieroglyphs

• alphabet

Sumerians were the first people to write down their…

• taxes

• history

• portraits

• laws

What was the Sumerians’ best invention?

• metal

• wheel

• plow

• pitch fork

The villages in Sumer eventually got bigger and were called…

• city-states

• empires

• villages

• cities