Vocab
What is a city-state?
An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government.
Where was Fertile Cresent located?
Mesopotamia
What mountains have good conditions for growing crops?
Zagros Mountains in northen Mespotamia
The farmers who moved to Sumer faced many challenges. One of the biggest problems was the...
Uncontrolled water supply
The irrigation system passed through a number of villages as it carried water from the river to the...
What is complex?
Arranged in a difficult way.
What are the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia?
Tigris River and Euphrates River
What did historians beileve in 5000 B.C.E about farmers in the Zagros foothills.
That they did not have enough land to grow food for the increasing population.
During the spring, rain and melted snow from the mountains flowed into the...
Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Gradually, villages came to depend on one another to build and maintain this complex...
irrigation system
What is a dispute?
A strong disagreement.
The Mesopotamian farms needed what?
They needed water.
In Neolithic times, people in some areas of the world began...
Farming
In Sumer, the water supply was...
unreliable. Farmers had either too much water or too little.
As Sumerian cities grew, they fought over the right to use more...
What is irrigation?
A means of supplying land with water.
What building material was difficult to find?
Wood
Mild weather and plentiful rains made the foothills a good place to...
Farm
What was the key to successful farming in Sumer?
controlling the water supply
The walled cities of Sumer were like independent countries and called what?
City-states
What is a layer?
A substance that lies between or above other things.
Where is Mesopotamia located?
Fertile Cresent
Driven by the need to grow food, people moved out of the foothills and onto the...
Plains
Sumerians learned other ways to control the supply of water. They dug...
Canals
Around the beginning of 3500 B.C.E. the Sumerians progressed from living in small farming villages to...
Large walled city-states