SS CH 4 Mesopotamia

1. Mesopotamia is located in the
2. Mesopotamia is also referred to as the
3. The area Fertile Crescent is referred to that name because of the area's
4. The Fertile Crescent was created by two rivers _____ & ______.
5. The Tigris River and Euphrates Rivers flooded annually, depositing ______ into the riverbeds around them
6. This silt helped to ________________the land
7. ___________developed the first civilization in the world
8. The first civilization is referred to them as the
9. Farmers could not live close to the rivers because they would
10. To make up for water scarcity, _____________dug a system of canals
11. The canals carried __________ from rivers to farms.
12. These canals were the world's first
13. Sumerian people ____________ animals such as cows, sheep, and donkeys.
14. These animals provided resources like
15. To make transportation faster, Sumerians invented the
16. Eventually they created wagons and _________for domesticated animals.
17. Early Sumerians used tools made of ______ or _______ which often broke.
18. They experimented with _______ to make bronze
19. The tools that were sturdier and hardly ever broke were the
20. The Sumerian farmers produced a stable food supply and food surplus
21. Because of the stable food supply and food surplus fewer people had to _______ to survive
22. Major economic growth occurred when Sumerians began to
23. _____ and _____ learned skills to produce goods for trade
24. ______ and _____ made tools and built houses.
25. The transportation of goods was made easier by _________
26. Merchants used _______ or _______ to pull carts of goods between Mesopotamia and city-states.
27. Each city-state had its own ___________
28. The _____ of each city-state had control over all things.
29. Kings usually came from a ruling
30. Sumerian people worshipped more than one god which means they were
31. Sumerian people built temples called ______
32. The first writing system is called _______ and is a pattern of wedge-shaped symbols.
33. The oldest written story in the world is called
34. King Hammurabi governed the
35. Hammurabi introduced a written code of laws called
36. Which reflects on the idea of "an eye for an eye", a

a. Fertile Crescent
b. farm
c. metal workers and brick layers
d. flood regularly
e. "tooth for a tooth"
f. oxen or donkeys
g. clay or copper
h. wheel
i. weavers and potters
j. specialize
k. domesticated
l. ziggurats
m. The Code of Hammurabi
n. monarchy
o. Middle East or Near East
p. polytheists
q. Sumerian farmers
r. water
s. cuneiform
t. Sumerian civilization
u. wheeled carts
v. First Babylonian Empire
w. plows and harnesses
x. silt
y. metallurgy
z. meat, milk, and wool
aa. king
ab. irrigation system
ac. irrigation, domestication, invention of the wheel and plow
ad. Mesopotamia
ae. family
af. The Epic of Gilgamesh
ag. fertile soil and fertile soil &its shape
ah. bronze tools
ai. fertilize
aj. Tigris River & Euphrates River

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SS CH 4 Mesopotamia (Answer Key)

o 1. Mesopotamia is located in the
a 2. Mesopotamia is also referred to as the
� 3. The area Fertile Crescent is referred to that name because of the area's
� 4. The Fertile Crescent was created by two rivers _____ & ______.
x 5. The Tigris River and Euphrates Rivers flooded annually, depositing ______ into the riverbeds around them
� 6. This silt helped to ________________the land
~ 7. ___________developed the first civilization in the world
t 8. The first civilization is referred to them as the
d 9. Farmers could not live close to the rivers because they would
q 10. To make up for water scarcity, _____________dug a system of canals
r 11. The canals carried __________ from rivers to farms.
| 12. These canals were the world's first
k 13. Sumerian people ____________ animals such as cows, sheep, and donkeys.
z 14. These animals provided resources like
h 15. To make transportation faster, Sumerians invented the
w 16. Eventually they created wagons and _________for domesticated animals.
g 17. Early Sumerians used tools made of ______ or _______ which often broke.
y 18. They experimented with _______ to make bronze
� 19. The tools that were sturdier and hardly ever broke were the
} 20. The Sumerian farmers produced a stable food supply and food surplus
b 21. Because of the stable food supply and food surplus fewer people had to _______ to survive
j 22. Major economic growth occurred when Sumerians began to
i 23. _____ and _____ learned skills to produce goods for trade
c 24. ______ and _____ made tools and built houses.
u 25. The transportation of goods was made easier by _________
f 26. Merchants used _______ or _______ to pull carts of goods between Mesopotamia and city-states.
`n 27. Each city-state had its own ___________
aa 28. The _____ of each city-state had control over all things.
ae 29. Kings usually came from a ruling
`p 30. Sumerian people worshipped more than one god which means they were
`l 31. Sumerian people built temples called ______
`s 32. The first writing system is called _______ and is a pattern of wedge-shaped symbols.
af 33. The oldest written story in the world is called
`v 34. King Hammurabi governed the
`m 35. Hammurabi introduced a written code of laws called
`e 36. Which reflects on the idea of "an eye for an eye", a

a. Fertile Crescent
b. farm
c. metal workers and brick layers
d. flood regularly
e. "tooth for a tooth"
f. oxen or donkeys
g. clay or copper
h. wheel
i. weavers and potters
j. specialize
k. domesticated
l. ziggurats
m. The Code of Hammurabi
n. monarchy
o. Middle East or Near East
p. polytheists
q. Sumerian farmers
r. water
s. cuneiform
t. Sumerian civilization
u. wheeled carts
v. First Babylonian Empire
w. plows and harnesses
x. silt
y. metallurgy
z. meat, milk, and wool
aa. king
ab. irrigation system
ac. irrigation, domestication, invention of the wheel and plow
ad. Mesopotamia
ae. family
af. The Epic of Gilgamesh
ag. fertile soil and fertile soil &its shape
ah. bronze tools
ai. fertilize
aj. Tigris River & Euphrates River

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