Vocabulary
Mesopotamia
Food Shortages
Irrigation
Neighbors
100
This means "land between the rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
100
True or false: Mesopotamia was an easy place to live.
What is false?
100
Farming in Mesopotamia was mostly in the north/south part.
What is the north?
100
Name the main problem in Sumer when people first moved there.
What is the uncontrolled water supply (too much; too little)?
100
Just as in early Arizona history, Sumerian fought with their neighbors in order to control this resource.
What is water?
200
These were like small, independent countries with own rules and rulers.
What are city-states?
200
This part of the country was hilly and received lots of rain.
What is the northern part?
200
Villages began to suffer food shortages because________.
What is the farms did not have enough land to grow food for all the people?
200
This part of an irrigation system is built of earth walls.
What is a levee?
200
Sumerians protected their cities from neighboring attacks by building 2 protective devices around their cities. Name both.
What is 1) a wall 2) moats?
300
This is a means of supplying water.
What is an irrigation system?
300
On the flat plains, it was difficult to find these items.
What are building materials?
300
During the year, the plains were hard and _ _ _ .
What is dry?
300
This part of an irrigation system is a wall that stops the water from flowing.
What is a dam?
300
Describe how walls were built in Sumer.
What is mud bricks were dried in the sun until hard?
400
Spell the river name that is usually associated with the Tigris River.
What is the Euphrates River?
400
The Mesopotamians were mostly of this class.
What is they were farmers?
400
Name 2 items lacking in the plains that stopped people from being able to make tools and shelters (homes).
What is there were no trees or stones?
400
This part of an irrigation system is a long trench dug into the ground.
What is a canal?
400
True or false: a plain has lots of mountains; trees; hills, etc?
What is false; a plain is flat land?
500
A very fine mud________would be helpful for this weed like plant _________to grow near rivers.
What is silt and reeds?
500
Name the 4 key problems faced by Mesopotamians.
What is 1) food shortages 2) uncontrolled water supply 3) difficulty in building irrigation system 4) attacks
500
People moved from the foothills onto the plains and this region became known as ________.
What is Sumer?
500
Bonus: this is the longest river in southwestern Asia.
What is the Euphrates River?
500
State why the Sumerians had to build barriers around their city-states based upon the natural land features.
What is there were no natural barriers for protection so that had to build walls and moats around their cities?
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