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Lesson 4 Vocabulary, Rise of Sumerian City-States

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The area between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers is called_____________.

a)

Mesopotamia

b)

Sumer

c)

Zagros

d)

city-state

2.

One of the two rivers that flows from the mountains in Turkey and empties into the Persial Gulf

a)

Tigris

b)

Mississippi

c)

Jordan

d)

Nile

3.

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

a)

Euphrates

b)

Zagros

c)

Caspian

d)

Nile

4.

An area in southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared

a)

Sumer

b)

Euphrates

c)

Tigris

d)

Zagros

5.

What is irrigation?

a)

supplying land with water

b)

stopping the river flow to hold back water.

c)

A wall of earth built to prevent rivers from flooding

d)

Rain falling from the sky

6.

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

a)

levee

b)

irrigation

c)

dam

d)

canal

7.

fine particles of rock that flow in rivers

a)

silt

b)

levee

c)

crops

d)

debris

8.

an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own land and laws

a)

city-state

b)

nation

c)

village

d)

empire

9.

Where is Mesopotamia?

a)

Aisa

b)

Europe

c)

Africa

d)

North America

10.

What does "Mesopotamia" actually mean?

a)

The land between two rivers

b)

The land of opportunity

c)

The land where suffering ends.

d)

The land of solutions