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History
Sumer and other early civilisations: what made them similar?
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What do farmers grow?
rivers
cities
crops ✓
houses
Match the starter sentences to the word to complete each sentence.
Sumer was an ancient
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civilisation. ✓
Sumer was in
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Mesopotamia. ✓
Sumerians were excellent
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farmers. ✓
Mesopotamia means 'the land between two ...'
'rivers' ✓
Which two rivers was Mesopotamia between?
Tigris ✓
Mesopotamia
Sumer
Euphrates ✓
Why was farming successful in Mesopotamia?
The land was fertile between the two rivers ✓
There were more people to grow food
The farmers learned to control the water ✓
The farmers relied on the flood waters
Successful farmers grew more
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than they needed.
'food' ✓
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