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WorksheetsAgriculture in Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia STUDYCOM
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
The lands of Egypt and Mesopotamia were home to two of the earliest civilizations, or ____________
World's first empires
city states
complex societies
powerful kingdoms
If you were to look at a picture of Egypt from space, you would see a long, slithering line of green working from deep within Africa through the country before opening its mouth on the _________________.
Nile River
Mediterranean
Red Sea
Ethiopia
Most obviously, the Nile river brought water to the desert. Egypt is covered almost entirely by ___________
cataracts
fresh water
seas
the Sahara Desert
Even in Egypt today, the Nile has many species of _______ for Egyptians to eat.
domesticated animals
fish
fresh water
plains
Ancient Egyptians mostly relied on fishing as there were plenty of varieties
True
False
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, flooded, there was no way of telling how deep the flood was going to be. Instead, whereas the Egyptians sought to predict the floods, the Mesopotamians ______________
did not take it seriously
tried to stop them
could not solve that issue
made it regular
Egypt was a desert, and therefore _________________
Egyptians built dams
sailing on the Nile through the south was not possible
it did not rain very often
sailing on the Nile through the north was not possible
Sumerians built some of the first examples of __________, or man-made systems to water crops, that the world had ever seen.
dams
nilometer
ships
irrigation
The Mesopotamians built (a) across the rivers, making designated areas for the water to flood into, instead of the rivers flooding their houses.
The Nile is so important to Egypt that a Greek historian, named __________, said, 'All of Egypt is the gift of the Nile.'
Heraklius
Herodotus
Leonidas
Iasonas
