Ancient Mesopotamia
This means "The land between two rivers.
Mesopotamia
Sumerian society was divided into several groups or ________________.
classes
This was a specialized wheel used to make pottery.
Potters wheel
This is the longest river in the world, which is 4,160 miles long.
The Nile river
Every year, heavy rains in Ethiopia caused the Nile to ________ every summer.
flood
What are the names of the two rivers Mesopotamia lies between?
The Euprhates and the Tigris rivers.
This class was at the top of Sumerian society.
Kings and priests
The Sumerians were the first to use ____________, which was a mixture of copper and tin.
bronze
In the south, it churns with __________, or waterfalls.
cataracts
The region by the Nile river was called the _________ land because of the fertile soil deposited by the flooding.
black
The job most of the people living in Mesopotamia had before it grew.
Farming
The middle class was made mostly of ________ people.
free
The Sumerians developed ____________, which they used to keep records of their crops and trade goods.
math
Near the Mediterranean Sea, the Nile branches into a ____.
delta
The ________ land was the barren desert beyond the fertile region.
red
The first civilization was in _____________, around 3300 B.C.
Sumer
Historians believe the Sumerians invented the _________, which was made of sticks with digging handles, that was first pushed by people and then pulled by animals.
plow
The Sumerians understood _______________ shapes, which included the triangle, rectangle, and squares.
geometric
The Nile river is called the _________ Nile in the south.
Upper
The harsh desert acted as a barrier to keep out _______.
enemies
The people living in Sumer were called this.
Sumerians
wheel
A community that included a city and its nearby farmlands was called a ___________________.
city-state
The Nile river is called the _____________ Nile in the north.
Lower
The soil deposited from the floods was very _________________, which means that it was good for growing crops.
fertile