Ch4L1: Sumerians

A _____________ is a pyramid-shaped temple tower that rose above each Sumerian city.

• ziggurat
• pictograph
• cuneiform
• scribe

The word Mesopotamia means...

• cradle of civilization

• the land between two countries

• the land between two rivers

• home of agriculture

Flooding along the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates results in...

• a rich layer of silt being deposited on the banks

• the death of thousands of people

• an increase in trade

• people moving to live in other places

What were ziggurats?

• a food storage device

• the Sumerian writing system

• large buildings used as religious temples

• a tool used to write with

Irrigation systems were used to...

• write on clay tablets

• build walls for protection

• bring water to places that needed it

• drain out excess water after flooding

Mesopotamia is located between what two rivers?

• Tigris and Nile

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Nile and Ganges

• Mississippi and Ohio

A city state is...

• a means of supplying land with water

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

• one of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf

• a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks

An artifact is:

• A bone left by dinosaurs

• An object from the past that teaches us how people lived

• A book written last year

• A tool used for farming

Irrigation is:

• A tool for moving soil

• A body of water surrounded by land

• A tool used to transport water

• None of these

Silt is

• A rich soil deposited by rivers

• Water deposited by rivers

• A type of tree

• None of these