Vocabulary
Problems
Solution
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What qualifies an area as a city-state?
It has a monarch and a farm
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What caused the food shortage in the foothills?
Overpopulation
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How did levees help the Sumerians?
They provided protection from floods.
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Why did people have to work together in Mesopotamia?
They had a shared water supply and irrigation system.
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What is a levee
A wall of earth used to stop flooding
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After the irrigation system was created, what problems arose?
People began fighting over who got the water.
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How did people recover from the food shortage in the foothills?
They moved to the plains.
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Modern day Mesopotamia is called what?
Iraq
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What does Mesopotamia mean?
The land between two rivers
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Explain how uncontrolled water affected Mesopotamians.
There was flooding and drought.
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Explain how the irrigation system benefitted the Sumerians.
Holes drilled in the levees allowed water to get in when needed.
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What are inhabitants of Sumer called?
Sumerians
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What is the purpose of an irrigation system?
It balances the water levels.
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Why were the plains not an ideal place to live?
There were no natural barriers, and the ground was hard and dry.
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What were the pros and cons to the irrigation system?
Pros- balanced water supply Cons- people began fighting over the water and trying to keep it for themselves.
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How are levees, canals, and dams related?
They all serve to balance water levels.
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What is silt, and why was it important?
Silt is very fine mud, and it clogged the canals
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Which portion of Mesopotamia struggled with overpopulation? (north, south, east, or west)
The North
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How did the Sumerians handle violence over water?
They built walls around their city-states as protection.
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The two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia are called the ___________ and the ____________
Tigris and Euphrates
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