Mesopotamia
Vocabulary
The Rise of Sumerian City-Sates
Sumerians
Life in a City-State
100
"The land between the rivers" is Greek for
What is Mesopotamia?
100
This is a means of supplying land with water
What is an irrigation system?
100
Problem: Enough food could not be produced in the foothills of the Zagros Mounts. Solution?
What is people moved out of the mountains and into the plains?
100
Acient people who live in the geographic region of Sumer
What is Sumerians?
100
Because many people lived in Sumer they all worked together to take caor of this system
What is irrigation system?
200
The name of the two rivers
What is the Tirgirs and the Euphrates
200
An early city that was like a small independent country with its own laws and government
What is City-State?
200
Problem: There was an uncontrolled water supply on the plains. Solution?
What is the sumerians created irrigation systems with levees, canals, damns and reserviors?
200
The Sumerians could not longer live in small communities due to this reason
What is maintaing the irrigation system?
200
Each settlement had its own ruler and farmland was known as this
What is city-state?
300
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
300
The southern part of Mesopotamia where cities first appeared
What is Sumer?
300
Problem: The irrigation system had to be maintained. Solution?
What is people working together and forming large communities?
300
Sumerians used these to control the amount of water in the valley
What is a levee?
300
This made it difficult to live in Sumer than in the foothills of Zagros
What is lack of natural barries to keep out enemies?
400
What part of Mesopotamia was later named Sumer? (Hint: North, South, East, or West)
What is South?
400
A wall of eath built to prevent a river from flooding its banks
What is a levee?
400
Problem: Cities fought over the right to use water. Solution?
What is sumerians built walls and moats around their cities?
400
The Sumerians used moats or strong city wall to provide this for its citizens
What is protection?
400
These are problems faced by the people who lived in the city-states.
What is the shortage of food, the lack of easy water supply, or the difficult land which crops had to be grown in?
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