Lesson 4 Vocabulary, Rise of Sumerian City-States

The area between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers is called_____________.

• Mesopotamia

• Sumer

• Zagros

• city-state

One of the two rivers that flows from the mountains in Turkey and empties into the Persial Gulf

• Tigris

• Mississippi

• Jordan

• Nile

A river that flows from the mountains of Turkey and empties into the Persian Gulf.

• Euphrates

• Zagros

• Caspian

• Nile

An area in southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared

• Sumer

• Euphrates

• Tigris

• Zagros

What is irrigation?

• supplying land with water

• stopping the river flow to hold back water.

• A wall of earth built to prevent rivers from flooding

• Rain falling from the sky

A wall of earth that people build to prevent a river from flooding its banks.

• levee

• irrigation

• dam

• canal

fine particles of rock that flow in rivers

• silt

• levee

• crops

• debris

an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own land and laws

• city-state

• nation

• village

• empire

Where is Mesopotamia?

• Aisa

• Europe

• Africa

• North America

What does "Mesopotamia" actually mean?

• The land between two rivers

• The land of opportunity

• The land where suffering ends.

• The land of solutions