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- 1. Multiple ChoiceBased on its name, what do you know about Mesopotamia?It is located between two riversIt is located in mountain foothillsIt was home for a large populationIt was home of the world’s first cities
- 2. Multiple ChoiceEarly Sumerian cities were walled settlements surrounded by farmland. The strong city walls were built of sunbaked bricks. Moats, or ditches filled with water, surrounded the walls.
What does this tell you about the Sumerians?They did not trade with othersThey protected themselves from othersThey did not produce their own foodThey lived during the Paleolithic Age - 3. Multiple ChoiceWhat change, caused by farming in northern Mesopotamia, led people to move south?The population increased, and there wasn’t enough foodThe people fought, and they needed to find new places to liveThe climate changed, and it got too dry to keep living thereThe soil got overused, and plants could no longer grow there
- 4. Multiple ChoiceSumerians used levees, canals, and dams to…keep water away from neighboring townscontrol the amount of water in the valleymake ponds where they could wash clothescreate waterfalls so they had water power
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhat happened when people from many villages used Sumerian irrigation systems?Cities had to have moats for storing water outside their wallsCities had to limit the number of people who could have farmsPeople in the villages had to develop a language they could all speakPeople in the villages had to work together to take care of the system
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhy were Sumerian settlements called city-states?Each settlement served the Sumerian empireEach settlement had its own ruler and farmlandEach settlement had its own irrigation systemEach settlement recorded the empire’s history
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhy didn’t Sumerians continue living in small villages, as their ancestors had?They needed more land so they could gather enough foodThey needed more trees so they could build enough homesThey had to work together to maintain the irrigation systemThey had to live together to protect themselves from outsiders
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhat made it harder to live in Sumer than in the Zagros foothills?Sumer lacked natural barriers to keep out enemiesSumer had many hills that made farming difficultSumer had many stones that needed to be cleared from farmlandSumer lacked strong people to build canals
- 9. Multiple ChoiceMesopotamia is a Greek word that means “Land between the rivers”.TrueFalse
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThere was plenty of food in the hills for all the people, so they built a bigger city in the mountains.TrueFalse
- 11. Multiple ChoiceThe Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers provided water for the Sumerians and never flooded, making the region perfect for growing crops year round.TrueFalse
- 12. Multiple ChoiceThe Sumerians had to work together to keep the canals maintained and free of silt.TrueFalse
- 13. Multiple ChoiceEach city-state had its own ruler and farmland to provide food.TrueFalse
- 14. Multiple Choice__________________________________ caused Mesopotamians to move to the river valleycooperationuncontrolled water supplyfood shortagesconflict
- 15. Multiple Choice___________________________________________ caused Mesopotamians to build irrigation systemsfood shortagesuncontrolled water supplyconflictworking together
- 16. Multiple Choicethey had to ________________________________________ to maintain themcities fightingbuild walls and moatswork togetherlarger communities
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWorking together to maintain irrigation systems, Mesopotamians formed _________________________________smaller communitiesa new citylarger communitiessmall tribes
- 18. Multiple ChoiceConflict over water caused Mesopotamians to ________________________________________ around their cities.build walls and moatsspread outbuild larger farmlandsmove far away from
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