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What is an artificial way to water crops called?

• silt

• irrigation

• irritation

• rain

Select all of the ways the Sumerians made advancements in agriculture

• irrigation, silt, metallurgy, production of tools

• use of animal and slave labor

• wheel, sail, plow

• ziggurats

The Sumerians mixed together copper and tin and created bronze. What is the mixing of metals called?

• metallurgy

• irrigation

• metal mixing

• cuneiform

How did metallurgy help the advancements in agriculture in Mesopotamia?

• Metallurgy is the mixing of metals

• Metallurgy allowed the Sumerians to create stronger tools for farming

• Cuneiform allowed the Sumerians to record information and tax records

• Metallurgy allowed the Sumerians tools to be weakened and break easier

How did the use of slave and animal labor allow for advancements in agriculture?

• The animals ate all the corn

• The Sumerians did not have slaves

• Slave and animal labor allowed the Sumerians to plant more fields faster

• The Sumerians did not have agriculture. They raced cars on the wheels they invented

Select all of the inventions of the Sumerian people of Mesopotamia that helped with agriculture.

• pyramids

• wheel

• sail

• Epic of Gilgamesh

Which of the following words is a synonym for farming?

• calendar

• cuneiform

• ziggurat

• agriculture

What was the Sumerian invention that was pulled by a donkey, man, or ox that turned the grass over so crops could be planted?

• sail

• ziggurat

• cuneiform

• plow

Which of the following inventions allowed the Sumerians to transport crops to neighboring city-states faster for trade?

• sail

• plow

• wheel

• cuneiform

Which of the inventions allowed the Sumerians to use the power of the wind to transport the goods to market to trade?

• wheel

• sailboat

• cuneiform

• ziggurat