Fertile Crescent Test Review

"the land between the rivers"; an early civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• China
• India
• Egypt
• Mesopotamia

More food than as needed by a person.

• Trade
• Domestication
• Surpus
• Irrigation

The type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job

• Division of Labor (Specialization) 
• Polytheism
• Work Force
• Domestication of Labor

A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• City-State
• Country
• Villiage
• Culture

Temples built by Sumerians to honor the gods and goddesses they worshiped

• City-States
• Statues
• Churches
• Ziggurats

A person who writes

• Author
• Scribe
• Hammurabi
• Illustrator

The Sumerians invented something that made it possible for their armies to use chariots. What was it?  

• harnesses
• swords
• wheels
• horseshoes

What was the purpose of irrigation?

• keep crops dry
• to provide water to crops
• provide indoor plumbing
• give people drinking water

The first civilizations arose in__________ because the conditions for farming were good.

• mountains
• deserts
• river valleys
• none of the above

River valleys were also ideal locations for __________ to develop.

• trade and travel
• water skiing
• mining
• forestry