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WorksheetsLesson 4 Vocabulary, Rise of Sumerian City-States
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
The area between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers is called_____________.
Mesopotamia
Sumer
Zagros
city-state
One of the two rivers that flows from the mountains in Turkey and empties into the Persial Gulf
Tigris
Mississippi
Jordan
Nile
A river that flows from the mountains of Turkey and empties into the Persian Gulf.
Euphrates
Zagros
Caspian
Nile
An area in southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared
Sumer
Euphrates
Tigris
Zagros
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 wall of earth that people build to prevent a river from flooding its banks.
levee
irrigation
dam
canal
fine particles of rock that flow in rivers
silt
levee
crops
debris
an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own land and laws
city-state
nation
village
empire
Where is Mesopotamia?
Aisa
Europe
Africa
North America
What does "Mesopotamia" actually mean?
The land between two rivers
The land of opportunity
The land where suffering ends.
The land of solutions
