Making Permanent Shelters
Beginning to Trade
Food Shortages in the Hills
Building and Maintaining a
Complex Irrigation System
From Small Farming Villages to Large City-States
100

What did people use to build and pack in their houses.

A. Mud Bricks

B. Metal

C. Wood from trees

D. Rubber

100

How did the introduction of trade affect Neolithic life.

Trading helped people get resources they wouldn't have otherwise.

100

What made Mesopotamia a difficult environment to live in.

There was not enough food.

100

What was the key to successful farming in Sumer.


By controlling the water system.

100

How did the Sumerian city walls relate to the environment.

The walls were made of bricks using local mud.

200

where was Mesopotamia originally located.

Iraq

200

How did the trade section help.

The growth of trade allowed people to make use of more resources.

200

What drove people out of the hills.

The food shortage.

200

What caused the clogged in the irrigation system. 

the Slit.

200

These independent city-states often fought with one another why.

 To defend themselves.

300

Why did they move to the south.

To get more water for the crops.

300

What did they do to fix their food problems.

They moved to the plains for more water.

300

What did they have to much of or to little of.

The water source.

400

 Where was the ancient land known as Mesopotamia.

the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

400

Why would traders travel long.

.

Traders would travel long distances in search of goods.

400


Why did farmers clean canals regularly?



Why did farmers clean canals regularly?




400

Which statement is FALSE about what led Sumerians to begin living in city-states.



A.

construction of irrigation systems


B.

protection and security


C.

disease


D.

food shortages

500

 the first people to begin farming in Mesopotamia lived

in the Zagros Mountains.

500

The hills got their water mostly from what.

The rain.

500

How did irrigation change the lives of Sumerians?

How did irrigation change the lives of Sumerians?


Villages now each had their own individual irrigation systems.
Irrigation allowed farmers to work alone or in small groups.
Farmers had to spend time repairing and maintaining the irrigation system.


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