Chapter 3.1/3.2

Mesopotamia means.....

• land between the rivers

• land and river

• body of water

• river between the land

Rivers provided water and means for_______.

• Travel

• Swim

• gatherings

Mountain rain and melting snow swelled rivers, carried soil to plains

• True

• False

Semiarid Climate

• cold summers with heavy rain

• hot summers with heavy rain

• hot summers with less than 10 inches of annual rainfall

• Cold summer with less than 10 inches of annual rainfall

Unpredictable floods came between _____ and _____

• May and June

• March and April

• June and July

• April and June

Example of Complex Institution.

• Bronze

• Surplus grain

• quality of work

• government

Example of Advanced Cities.

• Religion

• Place to store surplus

• Schools

• Bronze

Example of Advance Technology

• Bronze

• Armies

• counting sticks

• schools

Sumer invented the world's first writing system; this is the example of what trait?

• Advanced Technology

• Advanced Cities

• Record Keeping

• Complex Institutions

What are the 5 traits of civilization?

• City-states, Advance Technology, Advanced cities, social class and communication

• Record Keeping, Advanced Technology, Advanced Cities, Complex Institutions, and specialized workers

• Record keeping, complex institutions, Religion, specialized workers and Advance cities

• Communication, Religion, social class, city-states and Record keeping