B) What are the advantages to settling by a river? (1 point)

The advantages to settling by a river include **fresh water, food, irrigation, and trade**. Rivers provide a reliable source of fresh water for drinking and farming, support diverse ecosystems for food through fishing, offer irrigation options for agriculture, and serve as trade routes for transportation and commerce.

A)

Use the chart from U3L4 to answer the following questions:
Egypt Both Mesopotamia
Nile River
River flooding was
predictable
Gods were good and gave
beneficial floods; Amen-Ra
Hieroglyphs
Pharaohs
Ramp and lever, geometry,
ships, and medicine
River valley
civilizations
Fertile farmland
Polytheism
Similar social
structure
Significant
technological
development
Tigris and Euphrates rivers
River flooding was unpredictable
Gods were punishing and must be
appeased to prevent torrential floods;
Enil
Cuneiform
Kings
Domestication of livestock, wheels,
sails, basic tools, chariot
What type of religion did Egypt and Mesopotamia have in common?
(1 point)
monotheism
polytheism
theocracy
no religion
B) According to the chart, who is credited with the creation of sails? (1 point)
Both
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Neither
C) Why did Egyptians view their gods as good and Mesopotamians view their gods as
punishing? (1 point)
Egyptian gods gave torrential floods and Mesopotamian gods gave beneficial floods
Pharaohs and Kings were seen as gods
Egyptian gods gave beneficial floods and Mesopotamian gods gave torrential floods
Amen-Ra was a nice guy and Enil was not

A) The type of religion that Egypt and Mesopotamia had in common is **polytheism**.

B) According to the chart, the creation of sails is credited to **Mesopotamia**.

C) Egyptians viewed their gods as good and Mesopotamians viewed their gods as punishing because **Egyptian gods gave beneficial floods and Mesopotamian gods gave torrential floods**.

Which social class had the most people?

(1 point)
Craftsmen
Farmers and Slaves
Merchants
Scribes
Question 7
B) Knowing that education was not available to all social classes in Ancient Egypt, choose the
social classes most likely to read and write: (1 point)
Pharaoh
Government Officials, Nobles, Priests
Scribes
Soldiers
Merchants
Craftsmen
Craftsmen
Merchants
Pharaoh
Scribes
Farmers & Slaves
Merchants

A) The social class that had the most people was **Farmers and Slaves**.

B) The social classes most likely to read and write in Ancient Egypt were **Scribes**.