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Chapter 3 Study Guide
(Test on Wednesday, October 1)
1. The Fertile Crescent is best explained as fertile soil for farming.
2. In Sumer, people that could read and write were called scribes.
3. The most important people in Sumer were priests.
4. The name of a Sumerian religious place was called a ziggurat.
5. Mesopotamia was known as “The land between the two rivers”. It was
located in between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
6. The current country that lies where Mesopotamia once thrived is Iraq.
7. Mesopotamians established a very complex system of farming. This
system includes using a series of levees to block the flow of water,
canals to control where the flow travels to and an artificial lake to act
as a reservoir to store the water. This process is known as irrigation.
8. A wedged shaped writing system developed in Mesopotamia –
Cuneiform
9. The ziggurat was significant because it was the temple built for the
gods.
10. City-states fought each other for farmland to control the rivers.
11. The Sumerians invented the wheel, sailboat, and the plow.
12. The Sumerians dealt with flooding by using canals.
13. Another word for rural is countryside.
14. A division of society by rank or class is known as social hierarchy.
15. Sumerians developed a number system based on the number 60.
16. Only men served the role of religious leaders in Sumer.
17. The first hunter-gatherer groups settled in Mesopotamia more than
12,000 years ago.
18. Sumerians believed that the gods controlled what happened to their
crops.
19. The amount of land controlled by each city-state depended on its
military strength.
20. Pictographs are picture symbols.
21. Priests were at the top of the Sumerian social class.
22. The largest natural disaster for Mesopotamia was flooding.
23. Division of labor helped with the life in Sumer by giving people time to
accomplish more tasks.