Check Point #22
Number your paper 1-7
You’ll have 30 seconds for each slide
1.
What is irrigation?
A.The process of supplying water to crops
B.Learning how to raise farm animals
C.The religion of the agricultural community
D.When the weather ruins the crops
1.
2.
The few Sumerians who learned how to write often held
high positions in society as what?
A. artisans
B. scribes
C. heads of household
D. merchants
2.
3.
Although most Sumerians were farmers, many made
metal, cloth, and pottery because they were skilled
A. artisans
B. merchants
C. slaves
D. priests
3.
4.
• Developed by Sumerians
• Wedge shaped symbols
• Clay tablets
4. What term best describes the words in the box?
A.hieroglyphics
B.Cuneiform
C. Sanskrit
D.scribe
5.
In Mesopotamia, floods deposited silt, which made the
soil
A. rocky
B. fertile
C. dry
D. barren
5.
6. What type of government means rule by one?
a.Democracy
b.Republic
c.Theocracy
d.Monarchy
7.
7. What was the first part of the Stone Age
called? 6.2
a. Bronze Age
b. Fire Age
c. Paleolithic Age.
d. Neolithic Age.
Check your answers
1.
What is irrigation?
A.The process of supplying water to crops
B.Learning how to raise farm animals
C.The religion of the agricultural community
D.When the weather ruins the crops
1.
2.
The few Sumerians who learned how to write often held
high positions in society as what?
A. artisans
B. scribes
C. heads of household
D. merchants
2.
3.
Although most Sumerians were farmers, many made
metal, cloth, and pottery because they were skilled
A. artisans
B. merchants
C. slaves
D. priests
3.
4.
• Developed by Sumerians
• Wedge shaped symbols
• Clay tablets
4. What term best describes the words in the box?
A.hieroglyphics
B.Cuneiform
C. Sanskrit
D.scribe
5.
In Mesopotamia, floods deposited silt, which made the
soil
A. rocky
B. fertile
C. dry
D. barren
5.
6. What type of government means rule by one?
a.Democracy
b.Republic
c.Theocracy
d.Monarchy
7.
7. What was the first part of the Stone Age
called? 6.2
a. Bronze Age
b. Fire Age
c. Paleolithic Age.
d. Neolithic Age.
Sept.
th
18
• Bellwork
• Turn in 4.1 quiz – yesterday’s handout
• Checkpoint #22
• Classwork
• Mesopotamia vocab review
• Read 4.2 and fill in notes as you read