Vocabulary
Land Between 2 Rivers
The Rise of Civilization
Farming and Cities
Food Surpluses
100
A mixture of rich soil an tiny rocks
What is silt
100

The two rivers that are the most important physical features of Mesopotamia

What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

100
The first group to settle in Mesopotamia more than 12,00 years ago
Who are the hunter gathers.
100

Although Mesopotamia had fertile soil, farming

What is wasn't easy

100
This increased the amount of food farmers were able to grow
What is irrigation
200
More than one needs
What is surplus
200
In Greek Mesopotamia means
What is "between two rivers"
200
Over time people of Mesopotoamia learned how to
What is plant and grow their own foods
200
When great amount of rain fell
What is water levels got very high
200
Farmers had a surplus of
What is food
300

A large arc of rich or fertile farmland.

What is the Fertile Crescent

300

Mesopotamia lies between these two places?

What is the Asia Minor and the Persian Gulf.

300
Every year on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers this happened.
What is floods.
300
This destroyed crops, killed livestock, and washed away homes
What is flooding
300
With the irrigation system in place there was a need for fewer
What is farmers
400
A way of supplying water to an area of land.
What is irrigation
400
The Fertile Crescent extends from
What is the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
400
The flooding brought a mixture of soil and tiny rocks, this was called
What is silt
400

To help control their water issues, the people of Mesopotamia used

What is an irrigation system

400
Having people available to work on different jobs meant that this could accomplish more
What is society
500
The type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a partciular task or job.
What is division of labor
500
In acient times Mesopotamia was actually made of two parts. These parts where?
What are the Northern Mesopotamia and Southern Mesopotamia.
500
The first farm settlements formed in Mesopotamia as early as the
What is 7000 BC
500
To connect the basins to a network of ditches they dug
What are canals
500
Structure and rules could be provided by
What are laws and governments
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