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Rise of Sumerians - Chapter 4
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  • 1. The name of Mesopotamia comes from its location, which was
A) near a region of many conflicts
B) between two rivers
C) at the site of the earliest cities
D) in mountain foothills
  • 2. The environment of Sumer was
A) thickly forested, with heavy storms
B) high and cold, with sharp mountain peaks
C) low and flat, with little rain
D) hilly and dry, with many stones
  • 3. Why were Sumerian communities called "city-states"?
A) Each of them kept written records
B) Each of the had its own ruler and farmland
C) They were all part of one great empire
D) They all depended on each other for water
  • 4. Which fact allowed people to farm in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains
A) Harsh climates are good for grains
B) Goats can live on dry grass
C) Shallow canals watered the fields
D) The region had plenty of rain
  • 5. What development caused food shortages in the Zagros foothills?
A) fighting between villages
B) overuse of the soil
C) change in the climate
D) increase in population
  • 6. What solution did people in the Zagros foothills find to fix the problem of food shortages?
A) moving to the south
B) building terraces
C) constructing reservoirs
D) joining villages together
  • 7. What is a factor that made farming in Sumer difficult?
A) growth of weeds
B) lack of rainfall
C) steep hillsides
D) large mountain ranges
  • 8. Why did the rivers flood in the spring?
A) Heavy rain fell throughout the area
B) Ice that had formed on the river broke into bits
C) Strong winds blew from the Persian Gulf
D) Snow melted in the mountains where the rivers begin
  • 9. What was the chief purpose of dams and reservoirs?
A) to protect the villages from attacks
B) to allow travel by boat
C) to store water for later use
D) to make it easier to fish
  • 10. If you were in ancient Sumer, you might see a levee beside a river, why was the levee built?
A) to prevent floods
B) to control workers
C) to irrigate the crops
D) to load barges
  • 11. Why was silt a problem for the people of Sumer?
A) It clogged the irrigation canals
B) It ruined the soil for planting
C) It dried up the rivers
D) It crumbled the city walls
  • 12. Why did the villages of Sumer depend on each other?
A) They cooperated to keep the irrigation system working
B) They formed caravans to safely visit the mountains
C) They exchanged different kids of natural resources
D) They had to fight off attacks from empires to the east
  • 13. Using natural resources found in the environment, Sumerians built strong walls with
A) reeds cut near the rivers
B) logs with pointed tips
C) bricks made of mud
D) rocks shaped into squares
  • 14. The people of Sumer constructed moats to
A) protect cities from attacks
B) bring drinking water into towns
C) make villagers work together
D) get crops to grow better
  • 15. What two rivers run through Mesopotamia?
A) Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
B) Zagro and Euphrates Rivers
C) Sumer and Tigris Rivers
D) Nile and Tigris Rivers
  • 16. The earliest cities developed by what year?
A) 1904 AD
B) 3500 AD
C) 10000 B.C.E
D) 3500 B.C.E
  • 17. What is irrigation?
A) The climate that the Sumerians needed to adjust to
B) A means to control water supply to the land
C) A Paleolithic tool
D) A new method of fighting
  • 18. A self governing city that has its own ruler and laws is known as a
A) Culture
B) City-State
C) State-City
D) Empire
  • 19. The low flat plains of Mesopotamia are know as:
A) Tigris River Valley
B) Zagros Mountain Range
C) Persian Gulf
D) Sumer
  • 20. Irrigation is still used today>
A) False
B) True
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