The Land
Problems Faced
Attacks
Geography
Vocabulary
100
Mesopotamia is known as this...
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
Zagros Mountain people relocated here due to overpopulation and loss of natural resources.
What is Sumer?
100
Natural protection that is provided by the land you live on. The Sumerian plains did not have these.
What are natural barriers?
100
The continent directly north of Africa.
What is Europe?
100
An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government
What is a city-state?
200
Mesopotamia is known as this because it was the birthplace of civilization.
What is the "cradle of civilization"?
200
The Tigris and Euphrates overflowed due to weather from this season, causing the plains of Sumer to flood.
What is Spring?
200
The Sumerians built these around their city walls to keep enemies or intruders out.
What are moats?
200
The body of water to the west of Africa.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
fine particles of rock
What is silt?
300
Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
300
Farmers made these to make sure they had enough supplies of water
What are levees and irrigation systems?
300
By 3,000 BCE, most Sumerians lived here, enjoying the benefits of a protected and governed independent area.
What are city-states?
300
Area of land that has rich soil. Where Mesopotamia is located.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
a means of supplying land with water
What is irrigation?
400
Mesopotamia is located where this modern country exists today.
What is Iraq?
400
Irrigation Systems became clogged with this, making farmers have to clean it often.
What is silt?
400
Sat in the sun to dry and get durable, used for protection and building up city walls.
What are mud bricks?
400
The biggest desert in Africa.
What is the Sahara desert?
400
an area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared
What is Sumer?
500
Mountains where people lived happily, and had plenty of food before overpopulation.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
500
Natural resources that allowed for equipment to be made on the Zagros Mountains.
What are wooded hills and stones?
500
This often led to war or bloodshed among the villages in the Sumerian plains.
What is blocking the canal, or making sure that cities/villages down river do not get water?
500
The body of water the Nile River flows into. 
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
500
the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates river?