Geography of Mesopotamia
This fertile area stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A self-governing city and its surrounding territory.
What is a city-state?
Because stone and wood were scarce, Mesopotamians relied heavily on this building material.
What is mud?
These two rivers provided water, fertile soil, and unpredictable flooding.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The city-states in southern Mesopotamia were called this.
What is Sumer?
Mesopotamia sat between these two continents.
What are Asia and Africa?
Flooding left behind this nutrient-rich material that helped crops grow.
What is silt?
Because floods were unpredictable, rulers had to manage these major construction projects.
What are irrigation or watering systems?
The Fertile Crescent stretches from the Persian Gulf to this large sea in the west.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Why did farming become difficult over time in Mesopotamia, despite rich soil?
Because salt built up in the soil. (salinity)
The city-states located IN Sumer
What are Ur, Uruk, and Eridu?
Enslaved or poor people often lived in these types of living spaces, showing their position at the bottom of society.
What are small houses?
Mesopotamia had this type of climate, meaning it received very little rain.
What is semi-arid?
This person ruled each city-state and oversaw major building projects.
Who is the king?
When mud bricks were left out to dry, which natural resource helped harden them into building blocks?
What is the sun?
Mesopotamia created the first of this...
What is a complex society?