What was the name of the new place people settled?
A. Mesopotamia
B. China
C. Africa
A. Mesopotamia
What does Mesopotamia mean?
A. Land under rivers
B. Land between rivers
C. Land with no rivers
B. Land between rivers
What are the two rivers on the sides of Mesopotamia
A. Hudson and Nile
B. Connecticut and Mississippi
C. Tigris and Euphrates
C. Tigris and Euphrates
When did the first cities start to be built?
A. 2020
B. 1950
C. 5,500 BCE
C. 5,500 BCE
True or False: Each city acted like a small country
True
What was the land of Mesopotamia like?
A. Hilly in the north, plains in the south
B. An island
C. All mountains
A. Hilly in the north, plains in the south
True or False: Mesopotamia always had a perfect amount of rainfall
False
Where did farmers start growing their food?
A. desert
B. river
C. hilly area
C. hilly area
What is the system called that Mesopotamians created to water their crops?
A. Hose
B. Irrigation
C. Sprinklers
B. Irrigation
What resources (besides food) did the mountains provide?
A. nothing
B. skiing
C. wood and rocks
C. wood and rocks
What did the people do with wood and rocks?
A. Hit each other
B. Make shelters and tools
C. Make cars
B. Make shelters and tools
True or False: When they ran out of space to farm in the hills, people moved to farming on the plains.
True
What did they call the land settled when people left Mesopotamia?
A. Mesopotamia junior
B. Egypt
C. Sumeria
C. Sumeria
What did Sumerians build on the sides of rivers to control flooding?
A. levees
B. bridges
C. walls
A. levees
What did Sumerians build to keep water in place?
A. dams
B. bridges
C. buckets
A. dams
How did Sumerians get water for the whole city?
A. irrigation systems
B. Camels
C. they didn't
A. irrigation systems
