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Unit 1 Mesopotamia - Fertile Crescent Review

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6th Grade Unit 1 SS Review - #Mesopotamia #Fertile Crescent

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1
Why are the Sumerians known as problem solvers and inventors?
To work in the factory.
Creative ways to solve problems, and inventions.
2
What are two Sumerian innovations and how did these innovations make life easier for them?
1. Gasoline cars to get to places. 2. The Ink pen.
1.Dams, canals to get water to crops. 2.Wheels for farms.
3
A system of writing in which wedge shaped marks are carved into clay tablets is called _____.
Cuneiform
Ziggurat
Polytheism
Deity
4
What is an example of an export?
A division of labor
Jericho and Catal Huyuk receiving obsidian
Sumerians trading surplus grain
Building a dike for irrigation
5
Which innovation made farming easier?
Reservoirs
Bureaucracy
Potter’s wheel
Musical instruments
6
What is an example of an import?
Jericho and Catal Huyuk receiving obsidian
Building a dike for irrigation
Sumerians trading surplus grain
A division of labor
7
A code is
A wedge shaped writing
A set of laws written down
A set of verbal laws
A set of ziggurats in a region
8
What was the code of Hammurabi?
282 kind laws, carved on a ziggurat
192 harsh laws, carved in stone with cuneiform
192 kind laws, carved on a monument
282 harsh laws, carved in stone with cuneiform
9
Why was agriculture important to the people of the Fertile Crescent?
To be able to trade for supplies with their grain they grew.
To be able to build boats and float them in the fields.