6 BJU Heritage 2.1 Mesopotamia Terms Quiz

Which body of water is this, that flows from the Taurus Mountains through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq to the Persian Gulf; an Eastern border of Mesopotamia?

• Euphrates River

• Red Sea

• Tigris River

• Persian Gulf

Which body of water is this, that flows from the Taurus Mountains through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq to the Persian Gulf; an Western border of Mesopotamia?

• Euphrates River

• Tigris River

• Persian Gulf

• Mediterranean Sea

Match the following terms with their definitions.

• Fertile Crescent

• a curved area from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea

• Sumer

• in ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Greek = between the rivers

• Mesopotamia

• one of the first civilizations in Mesopotamia

• Ur

• a powerful city-state in Sumer

Who was an archeologist who, in the 1920s, uncovered many artifacts from Ur and the land of Sumer?

• Sir Leonard Woolley

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Abraham

• Sir Walter Raleigh

Match the following terms with their definitions.

• silt

• A way of supplying water to an area of land

• surplus

• an amount that is more than needed, excess

• tell

• A city and the surrounding land it controlled

• city-state

• a mound made up of layered dirt and the remains of buildings

• irrigation

• a sediment of very fine particles containing rock and minerals that is found at the bottom of bodies of water