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socialstudies9/12
socialstudies quiz 2 9/12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| - ----- --- -- ---- -- ------- --------.The "Birth Place of Civilization" Early peoples would settle where crops would grow, usually by rivers. | A large arc of rich or fertile farmland. |
| what are the two most important rivers?q\ | Tigris and Euphrates |
| what makes crops so beneficial? a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks | silt |
| every year ------ on Tigris and Euphates rivers would be ------- ----. | floods, deposit silt |
| Farmers were able to grow plentiful amounts of grain as early as ----- | 700 BC |
| with little wain farming depended on ---------- ----- --------. | unreliable river flooding |
| to much water... | destroys crops, too little & crops withered |
| Mesopotamians used... | irrigation away of supplying water to an area of land. |
| they dug water storage and canals, human made waterways that run water to ditvhes which... | irrigated fields. |
| ----------- --------- the amount of food grown. | irrigation increases |
| this creates a surplus, or ---- ---- ---- ------, so not everyone has to be a farmer | more food than needed |
| some people do other jobs like... | crafters,religious leaders, and government workers. |
| division of labor | where each worker specializes in a particular task or job. |
| city states | consistes of a central city of the countryside around it. |
| social merachy | where society is divided by rank or class |
| 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. | king priest merchants,traders,craftsmen farmers and workers slaves |