6th Grade Topic 2 Peoples of the Fertile Crescent

What is the Fertile Crescent?

• a region with good conditions for growing crops.

• it is a city in Mesopotamia.

What is a city-state?

• an independent state that includes a city and its surrounding territory

• a bunch of cities within a state

What is barter?

• a trading system in which people exchanged goods directly without using money

• it was an ancient tool used by ancient civilizations

What is Monotheism?

• The belief in one God

• The belief in many gods.

What was the very first ancient system of writing?

• The alphabet

• Cuneiform

Sumerians made improvements to farming, such as inventing the seed plow.

• True

• False

Who was responsible for creating 60 minutes, 60 seconds, and a 12 month year?

• Akkadians

• Sumerians

What is Polytheism?

• the belief in one God

• The belief in several gods

What is an import?

• a good made in one country and then sold to another country. (USA made products sold to China).

• a good or service that is sold within a country that was made in another country. (Things that say “Made in China”)

An empire is ....

• a person who ruled

• a state containing several countries or territories