6H - Mesopotamia - The Agriculturalist - Quiz
Your first and last names:
What made it possible for people in the Fertile Crescent to abandon their nomadic lifestyle?
They were near a source of water.
They liked hunting for food in the desert.
Their land was arid.
Their rivers were a good source of food.
Their land was fertile.
They were beginning to learn how to cultivate food crops.
They were beginning to learn how to use livestock for work and food.
They didn't have any animals.
The region was so fertile, they could just live off the food growing wildly there.
They learnt to use river water to irrigate their fields.
What kind of food did Mesopotamians eat?
Vegetables
Fruit
Fish
Meat from cattle and goats
Herbs
Spices
Legumes
Grains
Dairy products
The Egyptian Civilisation was on the:
Yellow river
Nile river
Indus river
Tigris-Euphrates rivers
The Indus Valley / Harappan Civilisation was on the:
Yellow river
Nile river
Indus river
Tigris-Euphrates rivers
The Chinese Civilisation was on the:
Yellow river
Nile river
Indus river
Tigris-Euphrates rivers
The Mesopotamian Civilisation was on the:
Yellow river
Nile river
Indus river
Tigris-Euphrates rivers
Period of the Chinese Civilisation:
3300 BCE to 2000 BCE
2000 BCE to 200 BCE
3200 BCE to 1300 BCE
3200 BCE to 1000 BCE
Period of the Indus Valley / Harappan Civilisation:
3300 BCE to 2000 BCE
2000 BCE to 200 BCE
3200 BCE to 1300 BCE
3200 BCE to 1000 BCE
Period of the Mesopotamian Civilisation:
3300 BCE to 2000 BCE
2000 BCE to 200 BCE
3200 BCE to 1300 BCE
3200 BCE to 1000 BCE
Period of the Egyptian Civilisation:
3300 BCE to 2000 BCE
2000 BCE to 200 BCE
3200 BCE to 1300 BCE
3200 BCE to 1000 BCE
So, which of the above four river-valley civilisations began first?
The Egyptian Civilisation
The Chinese Civilisation
The Mesopotamian Civilisation
The Indus Valley / Harappan Civilisation
"Civilisation" is a Latin word which means:
Of the city
Education
Culture
Prosperity
The characteristics of a civilisation:
An abundance of food
The ability to grow one's own food
Looking for food when necessary
Keeping records
Everyone participating in the work to be done
Specialists doing only their work and leaving the rest to others
Cooperation between people
Division of labour
People doing whatever they want whenever they want
Organised government
Organised religion
Trust and mutual responsibility
A system of writing
Possibility of storing knowledge in some way
Complex / specialised institutions
The use / invention of technology to do things
Some of the things the Sumerians invented or thought of:
Farming
The wheel
A calendar
Canals
Levees
Aquaducts
Roads
Domestication
Irrigation
A system of writing
Keeping records
Watching the skies to find annual patterns
Writing down laws
Surgery
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