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Chapter 3 Section 1

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 4mins

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1.

What does the word Fertile Crescent mean?

a)

the moon

b)

the sun

c)

a region with good conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast East through Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf

d)

a region with bad conditions for growing crops that stretches from the Mediterranean coast East through Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf

2.

What is Mesopatamia?

a)

a flat plain with a lot of deserts

b)

a wide, flat plain in between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in present-day Irak

c)

a narrow plain with candy everywhere

3.

What does it mean to irrigate?

a)

to make a canal

b)

to supply water to

c)

to take water from a lake

d)

to drink as much water as you want

4.

What is a city state?

a)

a city and a state

b)

independent state consisting of a country

c)

independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory

d)

a state and a country

5.

What does it mean to barter?

a)

to trick

b)

to trade

c)

trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money

d)

trading system in which people exchange goods directly using money

6.

What is polytheism?

a)

worship of one god or deity

b)

worship of 2 gods or deities

c)

worship of a million gods or deities

d)

worship of many God's or deities

7.

What is a ziggurat?

a)

an Egyptian tomb

b)

a graveyard

c)

an ancient zebra

d)

a brick, pyramid shaped Mesopotamian temple

8.

What is cuneiform?

a)

"Cuneiform is ancient writing that tells us that Sumer's city-states were always fighting."

b)

Mesopotamian system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for things or ideas