Agriculture in Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia STUDYCOM

The lands of Egypt and Mesopotamia were home to two of the earliest civilizations, or ____________

• World's first empires

• city states

• complex societies

• powerful kingdoms

If you were to look at a picture of Egypt from space, you would see a long, slithering line of green working from deep within Africa through the country before opening its mouth on the _________________.

• Nile River

• Mediterranean

• Red Sea

• Ethiopia

Most obviously, the Nile river brought water to the desert. Egypt is covered almost entirely by ___________

• cataracts

• fresh water

• seas

• the Sahara Desert

Even in Egypt today, the Nile has many species of _______ for Egyptians to eat.

• domesticated animals

• fish

• fresh water

• plains

Ancient Egyptians mostly relied on fishing as there were plenty of varieties

• True

• False

The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, flooded, there was no way of telling how deep the flood was going to be. Instead, whereas the Egyptians sought to predict the floods, the Mesopotamians ______________

• did not take it seriously

• tried to stop them

• could not solve that issue

• made it regular

Egypt was a desert, and therefore _________________

• Egyptians built dams

• sailing on the Nile through the south was not possible

• it did not rain very often

• sailing on the Nile through the north was not possible

Sumerians built some of the first examples of __________, or man-made systems to water crops, that the world had ever seen.

• dams

• nilometer

• ships

• irrigation

The Mesopotamians built __________ across the rivers, making designated areas for the water to flood into, instead of the rivers flooding their houses.

The Nile is so important to Egypt that a Greek historian, named __________, said, 'All of Egypt is the gift of the Nile.'

• Heraklius

• Herodotus

• Leonidas

• Iasonas