Sumerians

The nickname for a fertile region that stretches from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea in a crescent shape

• Babylonia

• Fertile Crescent

• Egypt

• Sumer

translates to "Land Between the Rivers" in ancient Greek

• ziggurat

• Sumer

• peninsula

• Mesopotamia

Which is a river in the Fertile Crescent?

• Euphrates
• Tigris
• Nile

• Huang He

The world's first civilization?

• Sumer
• Mesopotamia
• Fertile Crescent
• Iraq

True or False:  The flooding of the rivers in Mesopotamia was both good and bad.

• True
• False

How do rivers help sustain life?

• Food Source
• Water Source
• Good Soil / Silt
• All are correct

How do rivers provide dangers to early civilization?

• Flooding
• Hurricanes
• Famine
• Waves

Which word means "to supply water to"?

• sprinkle

• irrigate

• barter

• farm

independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory

• country
• civilization
• city-state
• village

belief in more than one god

• monotheism
• polygon
• polytheism
• multi-theism