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Use this worksheet and read the cartoon series above to get answers. To enlarge the cartoon, click on it. The following cartoons were colored by Billy Best '03, Anne Barsotti '03, Jen Shuttleworth '02. Thank you for your help.

Complete this cartoon set. A student may do two per section, Honors will receive 5 bonus points each, Basic students will receive 10 points each. To receive full credit, you must write in complete sentences and fully answer each question. The bonus sections are due by the day you take the test.

1. Where did people live 7,000 years ago?

2. What could a flood do to a river?

3. What was wrong with swamps?

4. When did people settle in Sumer?

5. Besides pottery, what other products could be made from mud?

6. What classification did irrigation digging become?

7. What did the mud help to create?

8. What did Eridu export?

9. What did Sumer import?

10. What villages was built in Sumer?