Mesopotamia

The Mesopotamia people are one of the earliest known civilizations. Their area was known as

• Sumer

• Ur

• Babylon

Earliest civilizations developed along the Twin rivers. Which two rivers did this include?

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Tigris and Zayandeh

• Euphrates and karun

How did the Sumerian control their physical environment?

• They built levees to keep back the floored water

• They poked holes in levees during the summer to get more water

• They made channels larger until they became canals to irrigate crops

• all of the above

What was the chief crop to the sumerians?

• wheat

• fruit

• barley

• dates

One of the great cities was called

• Ur

• Babylon

Match the following

• skilled workers

• reform

• Temple in each city meaning mountain of god

• artisans

• made up of the city and farmland around it

• empire

• improvement

• ziggurat

• group of states under one ruler

• city-state

The ________ lived near the center in houses that were two stories with wooden balconies

• upper class

• middle class

• lower class

Match the following

• famers, unskilled workers

• lower class

• skilled workers and government officials

• upper class

• priests and merchants

• middle class

this is an example of a temple or

• ziggurat

• church

• city-state

The goal of each sumerian was to please

• Gods

• Farmers

• Priests