Mesopotamia Early Pioneers Activity
Reading Comprehension
One of the skills you are working on this year is "active reading." Use your highlighted, underlined, and annotated classroom copy of the Mesopotamia Early Pioneers lesson to answer the following questions. If your classroom copy of the lesson already has the answers underlined or highlighted, you are off to a GREAT start.
Please use complete sentences to answer the following questions:
1) What is one of the reasons that we call ancient Mesopotamia “the Cradle of Civilization”?
2) Mesopotamia is called the land between two rivers. What are the names of those rivers?
3) Why did archaeologists nickname ancient Mesopotamia “the Fertile Crescent”?
4) What was name of the first Mesopotamian civilization?
5) How did Mesopotamian pottery serve as a form of wealth?
6) What are at least two things the early Mesopotamians invented?
Please use complete sentences to answer the following questions:
1) What is one of the reasons that we call ancient Mesopotamia “the Cradle of Civilization”?
2) Mesopotamia is called the land between two rivers. What are the names of those rivers?
3) Why did archaeologists nickname ancient Mesopotamia “the Fertile Crescent”?
4) What was name of the first Mesopotamian civilization?
5) How did Mesopotamian pottery serve as a form of wealth?
6) What are at least two things the early Mesopotamians invented?
Making Connections
