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What is the name of the 2 rivers in Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
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What was the name of the Mountains located in Northern Mesopotamia?
Zagros Mountains
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How did farmers know when the floods were coming?
They did not know they were coming
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What problem did silt cause?
Clogged the canals disrupting the water flow to cities.
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What is a city-state?
Early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government
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What does Mesopotamia mean?
Land between 2 rivers
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What was good about settling in the Zagros Mountains?
Mild weather, Plentiful Rains, Trees for timber, Stones for tool making
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What is this picture showing you?
Canals and Levee's
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What is Silt?
Rich fertile soil contained with vitamins and minerals
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What geographic barrier is the picture showing you?
A moat
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Which direction do the Tigris and Euphrates river flow and into which body of water?
Southeast into the Persian Gulf
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What is the name of the SOUTHERN region in Mesopotamia?
Sumer
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What did the people of Sumer create to help with their water supply?
Irrigation Systems
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Why would different Sumerian cities depend on each other?
To keep their section of the canal clean and clear of silt to keep the water flowing.
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What natural resource did Sumerians use to build their barrier?
Mud bricks that was sun baked
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Describe the environment of SOUTHERN Mesopotamia.
There was little rain, most of the year the soil was hard and dry, hot temperatures, seasonal floods
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In what season did southern Mesopotamia flood?
What caused the flooding?
Spring
Snow melting from the mountains and running down into the the rivers causing them to over flow
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What was the purpose of the levee's?
Built along the sides of the river to prevent flooding. When the land was dry farmers put holes in the levee's to allow water to flow through into the crops.
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What was the result of Sumerians working together?
They began to create larger cities.
Villages grew into towns and towns became their own cities.
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What was causing the disputes between Sumerian cities/towns?
The disputes were over the water resource because cities located closer to the river built new canals and blocked of old canals stopping the water from traveling to further cities.
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Mesopotamia faced major problems as they attempted to survive into their environment. What were the 4 major problems?
food shortages in the hills
An uncontrolled water supply on the plains
difficulties in building and maintaining systems that provided water across the village boundaries
attacks by neighboring communities
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Explain why the flooding was good.
Explain why the flooding was bad.
It was good because it brought rich fertile soil full of vitamins and minerals which is called Silt.
It was bad because the flood would wash away all crops that were planted.
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Explain the Irrigation Cycle using all 3 of the systems involved.
River flow is stopped by the Dam and pools up into the reservoir. The water then flows through the canals and levees protecting the crops from flooding water.
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Explain the solution for the irrigation system? and what was the main result....
villages became dependent on each other to maintain the irrigation system. As Sumerians worked together they began to create larger communities.
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Describe the layout of a Sumerian City-State.
The farmland and crops were located outside the city wall.
There was a moat that surrounded the city wall for more protection
The irrigation system and canals ran outside the the city and throughout the farmland
Inside the city contained houses, markets and temples