Vocabulary
The land between the two rivers, Tigris and Euphrates.
What is Mesopotamia?
Things that people can use that the earth produces or makes.
What are natural resources?
The name of the land where the earliest human civilizations began.
What is Mesopotamia?
The fancy name for farming.
What is agriculture?
The college that Mrs. Hoeksema is taking classes at.
What is Western Michigan University?
A wall of dirt built to hold back water from rivers that would flood crops.
What is a levee?
One of the following is NOT a natural resource.
A. Silt.
B. Water.
C. Cars.
D. Trees.
What is C. Cars?
A person who is not settled down in one place, but travels seasonally depending on animal movements.
What is a nomad?
Things that farmers need in order to do farming.
What is natural resources? What is silt?
What is purple?
An example of this is a canal dug from a river to farmland so that crops get water.
What is irrigation?
Which of the following IS a natural resource?
A. Computers.
B. Buildings.
C. Eiffel Tower.
D. Soil.
What is D. Soil?
The region of Mesopotamia that contained the first cities.
What is Southern Mesopotamia?
The part of Mesopotamia where farmers were best able to farm due to silt.
What is Southern Mesopotamia?
The place where Mrs. Hoeksema's husband is going to to serve in the navy.
What is Hawaii?
The process of taking something wild and taming it to do a task for humans.
What is domestication or domesticate?
This vocabulary word involves water, but is not a natural resource, as people artificially give water to plants.
What is irrigation?
As cities developed, people were able to divide up labor and jobs and focus on one type of job.
What is Specialized Workers?
City-state life could be described in this way.
What is settled? What is stationary? What is division of labor?
The Hogwarts house that Ms. Meyer belongs to.
What is Hufflepuff?
The fertile soil left behind in river beds that farmers like to use for farming.
What is silt?
The natural resources that made Mesopotamia a good place for people to settle.
What is silt, rivers, and flat land?
The name of the first major civilization that arose in Mesopotamia.
The name of the first major farming city in Mesopotamia.
What is Uruk?
The ages of Mrs. Hoeksema and Ms. Meyer.
What is 35?