Chapter 4 Test (Advanced)

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Chapter 4 Test (Advanced)

Matching: Write the letter of the definition that matches each term.(7 points each)

1. a means of supplying land with water
2. a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding the banks
3. an area in the southern part of Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared
4. an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government
5. ancient people who lived in the geographic region of Sumer
6. in ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

1)Levee ______

2)Irrigation systems ______

3)Sumerians ______

4)Mesopotamia ______

5)City-states ______

6)Sumer ______

Multiple Choice: Choose the answer that best fits the questions below. (7 points each)

1. Based on its name, what do you know about Mesopotamia?
2. It is located between two rivers.
3. It is located in mountain foothills.
4. It was home for a large population.
5. It was home of the world's first cities.
6. Read this paragraph about Sumerian cities:

“Early Sumerian cities were walled settlments surrounded by famland. The strong city walls were built of sunbaked bricks. Moats, or ditches filled with water, surrounded the walls.”

What does this arrangement tell you about the Sumerians?

1. They did not trade with others.
2. They protected themselves from others.
3. They did not produce their own food.
4. They lived during the Paleolithic Age.

1. What change, caused by farming in northern Mesopotamia, led people to move south?
2. The population increased, and there wasn't enough food.
3. The people fought, and they needed to find new places to live.
4. The climate changed, and it got too dry to keep living there.
5. The soil got overused, and plants could no longer grow there.
6. Sumerians used levees, canals, and dams to

1. Make ponds where they could wash clothes
2. Control the amount of water in the valley
3. Create waterfalls so they had water power
4. Avoid Spongebob clogging their irrigation systems.

1. Why were Sumerian settlements called city-states?
2. Each settlement served the Sumerian empire.
3. Each settlement had its own ruler and farmland.
4. Each settlement had its own irrigation system.
5. Each settlement recorded the empire's history.
6. What was the solution to the problem of maintaining the irrigation systems?

1. The king ordered all citizens to build less irrigation systems.
2. Mesopotamians began to work together, forming larger communities.
3. Sumerians moved to Egypt to avoid being attacked over the right to use water.
4. Farmers stopped farming in order to have a stable food supply.

1. How did cities solve the attacks by neighboring communities?
2. Sumerians signed treaties with other communities to share the water.
3. They murdered the other communities’ kings.
4. Sumerians built walls made of mud bricks and moats to protect their communities.

Chapter 4 Open Ended Question (9 points)

Answer the following question on the bottom or back of the multiple choice answer sheet.

Explain 2 of the four problems Mesopotamia faced in creating a civilization and the solution the Mesopotamians had to solving the problems.