Vocabulary
Geography
Problems
Vocabulary 2
100
Mesopotamia means the
land between the rivers
100
The northern part of the land was
What is hilly
100
A lack of ______ in the hills
What is food
100
A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding
What is levee
200
An area in southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared
What is Sumer
200
The Southern part of the land was
What is low plains
200
Difficulties building and maintaining _____ across villages
What is water
200
An early city that was like a small independent country
What is city-state
300
A means of supplying land with water
What is irrigation
300
The two main rivers were
What is Tigris and Euphrates
300
Uncontrolled _____ on the plains
What is water supply
300
There we many reeds, a few trees, and ______ for tools
What is stones
400
Fine particles of rock
What is silt
400
Mesopotamia is located in modern day
What is Iraq
400
______ by neighboring communities
What is attacks
400
Due to population growth in the Zagros Mountains, the early Mesopotamian's faces this problem
What is food shortages
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