Early Civilizations Review

An organized society within a specific area

• Farmland

• City

• Providence

• Civilization

More food than needed refers to a what

• smidge

• surplus

• famine

• excess

Mesopotamia means ___________________ in Greek.

• between the rivers

• between the streams

• outside the waterway

• inside the ocean

Cuneiform

• Mesopotamians system of writing

• Ancient Romans System of writing

• Ancient Greeks system of writing

• Sumerians system of writing

What is the arrow pointing to?

• Tigris River

• Congo River

• Euphrates River

• Nile River

What is the arrow pointing to?

• Nile River Valley

• Mesopotamia

• Asia Minor

• Red Sea

What is the arrow pointing to?

• Nile River

• Euphrates River

• Tigris River

• Caspian River

What is the arrow pointing to?

• Asia Minor

• Sahara Desert

• Syrian Desert

• Taurus Mountains

An agreement in which workers specialize in a particular task or job

• Social Class

• Division of Labor

• Surplus

• Irrigation

A thick bed of mud left as the flood water recedes

• silt

• scum

• mud

• sand