Mesopotamia Refresher

An ancient civilization which started as a farming community, but grew into the largest civilization the world had yet seen.

• Fertile Cresent

• Iraq

• Mesopotamia

• Kuwait

The Fertile Crescent, the area in which Mesopotamia laid, was situated between what two rivers?

• Nile and Euphrates

• Euphrates and Caspian

• Euphrates and Tigris

• It did not lie between two rivers

Mesopotamia was in modern day Iraq and Kuwait; what region is this today?

• South East Asia

• Middle East

• Oceania

• The Caribbean

rich soil, flat land around the rivers, and seasonal floods that deposited silt onto the farmlands are examples of physical geography that helped....

• ...encourage migration to new areas of the world

• ...the growth of hunting and gathering

• ...create the first large scale farming communities

• ...create the worlds first shipping industry

Why was flooding in Mesopotamia actually a good thing?

• Farmers built canals and irrigation systems that helped collect the water and water the crops.

• It created a surplus of crops.

• It allowed people to become artisans.

• People had to move out of the surrounding cities and into Mesopotamia.

Which is NOT a development of the Mesopotamian Civilization?

• the first large scale farming communities

• hunting and gathering

How did large-scale farming communities help Mesopotamia to thrive?

• People could eat healthier foods than ever before.

• This created a surplus (EXTRA) of crops, which allowed other jobs to be created.

• Unlike the past, people could now make permanent homes in the region because there was a stable food source.

• All of the above

Mesopotamia had one large city of hundreds of thousands of people.

• True

• False

This picture most likely portrays a Sumerian _______

• artisan

• surplus

• canal

• city-state

Sumer, the first civilization of Mesopotamia, was broken up into as many as 12 different city-states, each controlled by a different King.

• True

• False