Lesson 4 - The Rise of Sumerian City-States

What is the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers called?

• Tigris River

• Sumer

• Mesopotamia

• Euphrates River

What does it mean to maintain something?

• To keep something in good condition by making necessary repairs

• To construct something

• To arrange something in a difficult way

• To build a wall of earth

What is an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government called?

• Silt

• Irrigation

• Levee

• City-state

What is one of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf?

• Sumer

• Tigris River

• Mesopotamia

• Euphrates River

What is a resource that can be used to make something else called?

• Material

• Complex

• Layer

• Dispute

What does "Mesopotamia" actually mean?

• The land between two rivers

• The land of opportunity

• The land where suffering ends.

• The land of solutions

fine particles of rock that flow in rivers

• silt

• levee

• crops

• debris

A wall of earth that people build to prevent a river from flooding its banks.

• levee

• irrigation

• dam

• canal

What is irrigation?

• supplying land with water

• stopping the river flow to hold back water.

• A wall of earth built to prevent rivers from flooding

• Rain falling from the sky

A river that flows from the mountains of Turkey and empties into the Persian Gulf.

• Euphrates

• Zagros

• Caspian

• Nile