Water
Zagros Mountains
Farming
Irrigation
Etcetera
100
The dirt and particles in water that can block canals.
What is silt?
100
This caused food shortages in the mountains.
What is the population grew too large.
100
This is the rocks,particles and dirt found in water.
What is silt?
100
This is the name of the paths dug into the earth to guide water to the farms.
What are canals?
100
This is the continent which Mesopotamia is located on.
What is Asia?
200
This is a place where Sumerians would store extra water.
What is a reservoir?
200
This is what the people in the Zagros Mountains did to deal with their food shortages.
What is they moved into the valley between the rivers.
200
This is what the Sumerians invented to bring water to their farms.
What is irrigation?
200
This was used to store excess water.
What is a reservoir?
200
A Sumerian temple
What is a ziggurat?
300
The names of the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
300
The Zagros Mountains are located in what direction of Sumer?
What is north and west.
300
This is where farms were located in ancient Sumerian city-states.
What is outside the city walls.
300
When you do not have enough water it is called...
What is a drought?
300
Sumerian writing is called this.
What is cuneiform?
400
This is the reason rivers would flood in the springtime.
What is because snow on the mountains would melt.
400
This is what would happen when the snow on the mountains melted.
What is it would run into the rivers and flood the valley.
400
This is why Sumerian villages depended on each other.
What is to maintain the canals for irrigation.
400
This is the canal dug around a city that was filled with water and used for protection.
What is a moat?
400
Sumerians wrote on this.
What is clay tablets?
500
This was built near the river to keep it from flooding the farmland.
What is a levee?
500
In what modern country are the Zagros Mountains located?
What is Iran?
500
This is why most of the Sumerian city-states fought with each other.
What is over the supply of water.
500
Most Sumerian city-states had this built around them for protection.
What is a wall made of mud bricks?
500
The name of a professional writer in ancient Sumer
What is a scribe?
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