Review - Mesopotamia

1. What are the large, mud-brick temples built by the Sumerians called?

• Scribes

• Surplus

• Ziggurats

• Governments

A group of people who make laws and decisions is called...

• government

• innovation

• agriculture

• surplus

The flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers helped by...

• depositing silt that made the soil extremely fertile

• creating reservoirs used year-round for drinking water

• preventing invaders from crossing into settled territory

• eroding land in ways that could be used as irrigation canals

Which problem did ancient Mesopotamians have to solve to protect their cities & fields?

• how to control flooding

• how to build bricks out of clay

• how to prevent wind erosion

• how to defend against attacks by nomads

Ancient Mesopotamian irrigation systems helped do which of the following?

• store drinking water for year-round use

• provide water for ships to do trading

• change where the water went during times of flood

• carry animal wastewater away from the villages

What happened when Mesopotamians invented irrigation to control flooding?

• development of metal weapons & more fertile areas were conquered

• nomadic hunter-gatherers settled & domesticated animals

• More crops could be grown and this helped them have a surplus of food.

• temperate climate & predictable weather

Which was possible because of Mesopotamia's surplus food supply?

• protection from foreign invasions

• a variety of natural resources for trading

• the development of an advanced civilization

• more immigrants from surrounding regions

The success of Mesopotamia shows the importance of what factor for developing a civilization?

• military power

• mineral resources

• food production

• architectural knowledge

Any product created to help someone accomplish a task.

• gods

• agriculture

• authority

• technology

What is a society with written language, religion, government, economy, and education?

• Sumerian

• Civilization

• Gilgamesh

• Monarchy