Vocab
In ancient times, the geographic area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
What is Mesopotamia
Contributed to the flooding of the rivers in springtime
What is rain and melted snow caused the rivers to flood.
Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates River
fine particles of rock
What is silt
Sumerian farming villages grew into
What are city- states or large walled cities
the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf
What are The Tigris River and Euphrates River
This made farming difficult in the land of Sumer
What is Sumer had either too much water from flooding or too little water
Advantages the people living in the foothills of the Zagros mountains have for farming
What are mild weather and plentiful rains.
an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government
What is a city-state
The people of Sumer depended on one another for this.
What is they worked together to maintain and clear the canals and irrigation systems.
an area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appear
What is Sumer
The problem the people of Sumer faced with their irrigation systems
What is they fought over the right to use more water
The two types of environment in Sumer
What is flooded in the spring, but the rest of the year it was hot and dry.
Dams and reservoirs used for these purposes
What are dams were used to block water and force it to collect in pools. These pools or reservoirs stored water for later use.
Food shortages started in the Zagros foothills because of this.
What is the population grew dramatically and they did not have enough land to grow food for the increasing number of people
a method of supplying land with water
What is irrigation
These are some ways that the people of Sumer defended their city from enemies
What is built walls and moats around their cities.
The purpose of levees
What is the levees were used to prevent flooding.
This is how the people in the Zagros foothills solved their food shortage problem.
What is the people moved to the plains
a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks
What is a levee
The people of Sumer used this to build strong walls
What are mud bricks
3 characteristics of a “city-state”
What are rulers, farms, laws.