This semi-circle of land stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf and has rich soil for farming.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
This happens when populations grow and people move from the foothills to the plains. They just can't grow enough of this.
What is a food shortage?
100
This vocabulary word means to get water to crops. The ability to get land supplied with water.
What is irrigation?
100
All people need to have enough of this in order to create a civilization. Remember, there are no McDonald's.
What is a stable food supply?
100
This sea is west of Saudi Arabia.
What is the Red Sea?
200
This is the name of a person who is native to the Middle East or has ancestors from Arabia.
Who is an Arab?
200
This natural event happens to the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers throughout the year.
What is flooding?
200
This word refers to large banks of land beside rivers that help them from over flowing.
What is a levee?
200
A civilization needs to be orderly. We need a system of rules and laws set up by this.
What is a government?
200
These two seas are north of Iraq. One is northeast and one is northwest.
What is the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea?
300
This is the name of the area we call..."the land between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
300
This was invented to predict the coming of floods in the area of Mesopotamia.
What is a calendar?
300
This word refers to paths between crops. These paths will be filled with water.
What is a canal?
300
A civilization also needs different status of its members and a variety of jobs. This is know as____________.
What is a social structure?
300
These two countries are directly south of the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Libya and Egypt?
400
This word is the study of the features of the surface of the Earth.
What is geography?
400
The Mesopotamia calendar is based on the phases of this.
What is the moon?
400
If the Sumerians built a dam to hold back the water, this word is what the water stored behind the dam is called.
What is a reservoir?
400
This word refers to the beliefs and forms of worship needed by a civilization.
What is a religious system?
400
This gulf is what the two rivers flow into.
What is the Persian Gulf?
500
This land would be described as low and flat.
What is a plain?
500
These are the number of days in a week, weeks in a month, and days in a year according to the Sumerian calendar. (This is after they made the correction and added a bit of extra time)
What are 10,3,365.
500
This amazing machine, built with logs and a counterweight of mud/rock, made getting water to crops easier.
What is a shaduf?
500
Since all civilizations need a highly developed way of life, including art, music, and literature, the Sumerians needed to develop this.