Mesopotamia Quiz

What is Mesopotamia?

• A city-state

• An area of land in Southern Mesopotamia

• A large area of flat dry land

• One of the smaller hills below a group of high mountains

What is a city-state?

• A city that has their own ruler, and their own farmland to feed their people

• A way of supplying land with water

• Ancient people who lived in a geographic region of Sumer

• A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks

What is irrigation?

• A city that has their own ruler, and their own farmland to feed their people

• A way of supplying land with water

• Ancient people who lived in a geographic region of Sumer

• A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks

Who were the Sumerians?

• A city that has their own ruler, and their own farmland to feed their people

• A way of supplying land with water

• Ancient people who lived in a geographic region of Sumer

• A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks

What is a levee?

• A city that has their own ruler, and their own farmland to feed their people

• A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks

• A deep wide hole, usually filled with water, dug around a castle or small city as a defense

• A large area of flat dry land