Worksheets1.1 and 1.2 Mesopotamia Review
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 5mins
The two major rivers in Mesopotamia were:
The Nile and the Euphrates
The Tigris and the Euphrates
The Persian and the Tigris
The Amazon and the Nile
Mesopotamia today is located mostly in the modern-day country of:
Afghanistian
Iran
Iraq
Syria
True or false: Mesopotamia was naturally an ideal place for agriculture.
True
False
Bringing water to dry lands is also known as
agriculture
domestication
irrigation
technology
True or false: the rivers in Mesopotamia were destructive and flooded often.
True
False
One example of technology Mesopotamian farmers developed was:
the ox-driven plow
the sickle
the thresher
the wagon
A city and its surrounding lands and settlements is known as a:
kingdom
city
city-state
empire
When did Sumer (Mesopotamia's first civilization) arise?
2500 BCE
3000 BCE
3500 CE
9000 BCE
What did Sumerians use to protect their city-states?
Canons
Large armies
Thick, protective walls that stretched around the city-state.
Nothing - that's why warfare was so common.
