The Fertile Crescent

Question 1

The Fertile Crescent is _____.

Accepted Answer

where early people settled in a curved strip of farmland

Question 2

Homework would have taken you much longer if you were a Sumerian in 3000 B.C.E. They wrote on _____.

Accepted Answer

clay tablets

Question 3

Floods were not always a bad thing for farmers in Mesopotamia. Why not?

Accepted Answer

Flooded rivers made the soil fertile for crops., Floods helped create skilled jobs due to food surpluses., Mesopotamians built irrigation canals to funnel water to crops.

Question 4

If you love learning about ancient civilizations, which career should you pursue?

Accepted Answer

Archaeology

Question 5

Ancient Mesopotamia flourished in the river valley between the ___ and Euphrates River.

Accepted Answer

Tigris River

Question 6

The Phoenicians dyed cloth purple using grapes.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Hammurabi’s laws supported the belief of “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.”

Accepted Answer

True

The Fertile Crescent

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The Fertile Crescent

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