PRACTICE Ancient Vocab #4 and Timelines

There was so much rainfall that the clay crumbled and the _____________ broke creating a flood.

• levee

• irrigation

• technology

• cultivate

To _________ the farm land, the farmers created grooves and added nutrients in the fertile soil.

• cunieform

• cunieform

• cultivate

• worship

This picture connects to what part of farming?

• city-state

• civilization

• cultivate

• irrigation

This picture connects best to what vocabulary word?

• myth

• culture

• civilization

• worship

The artwork, beliefs, music, recipes and language are all related to a civilization's what?

• worship

• city-state

• culture

• technology

Early languages and writing is made of symbols or _______________.

• pictographs

• cunieform

• technology

• myth

The ________ was a traditional story that helped to explain why there was a poor harvest and no rain.

• pictographs

• cunieform

• technology

• myth

Irrigation canals, the wheel, and the plow are examples of ______________ that helped people's lives.

• city-state

• technology

• cunieform

• worship

This is an example of a small and independent country. What is it?

• city

• settlement

• city-state

• civilization

True or False: Cuneiform was an early form of writing that had wedge- shaped characters.

• True

• False