A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks.
What are levees
100
A process carried out by the farmers of mesopotamia to control crop growth
What is farming
100
The people became overpopulated, resulting in not enough food for everyone.The only land left to farm was seasonal, it was dry most of the time.Villages fought for food.
What caused the food shortages in the hills
200
A means of supplying land with water.
What is irrigation
200
The reason why people in mesopotamia built walls and moats.
What are attacks from neighboring communities
200
Major problems- food shortages, an uncontrolled water supply, difficulty building/maintaining a irrigation system, and attacks from neighboring countries.
What are the major problems that makes Mesopotamia a difficult environment
300
An area in southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared
What is Sumer
300
they dug canals and resrvoirs
how did they build an irrigation system
300
Neighboring villages had disputes over water
What did the neighboring villages and Sumerians fight over
400
An early city that was like a small independent country with its own laws and government.
What are city-states
400
The trouble that sometimes disrupted and clogged the irrigation system.
What is silt
400
farmers built levees to keep the river from flooding
What solved the uncontrolled water supply problem
500
"the land between the rivers"
What does Mesopotamia mean in Greek
500
Many people were starving because of this, it made people move south to the flat plains.
What is Not enough land for crops.
500
the Tigris and Euphrates river flow into the Persian Gulf