The Land Between Two Rivers
Working With Water
Farming in Mesopotamia
Vocab 1
Vocab 2
100
Moon-shaped piece of land between the rivers with fertile soil
What is the Fertile Cresent
100
Vocab: rich mixture of bits of rock and soil
What is silt
100
clay tablets
What did archaeologists find in Nippur
100
City
What is urban
100
long times with little or no rain
What is drought
200
fertile soil, constant water supply, and places for livestock
What made settlement possible in Mesopotamia
200
true or false; it rained a lot in Mesopotamia
What is false
200
farmers harvested each spring then threshed the grain from the husk in summer
What did clay tablets tell about farming
200
a branch of a river
What is a tributary
200
the use of connected ditches, canals, dams, and dikes to move water to dry areas
What is irrigation
300
rivers that cut through Mesopotamia
What are the Euphrates and Tigris rivers
300
true or false; flooding rivers are unpredictable
what is true
300
barley, wheat, emer
What important crops were grown in ancient Mesopotamia
300
high, flat area of land
What is a plateau
300
low, flat land formed from fine soils deposited by rivers
What is an alluvial plain
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