It's tough out here
Where's the beef?
Water everywhere!
Irrigation systems
Angry Neighbors
100

Name one RIVER that can be found in the area that we are studying.

What are the Tigris?   OR 

What is the Euphrates Rivers?

100

What drove people to move out of the foothills to the plains of Sumer?

The need for food

100
These two rivers flood every Spring.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
100

Name one river  that needed to be controlled for Sumer to be successful.

Tigers river 

Euphrates river

100

These strong barriers were made out of sun baked bricks.

What are walls?

200
This was the primary job of the Mesopotamian people.
What is farming?
200
These are the mountains in northern Mesopotamia.
What are the Zagros?
200
These are a means of supplying land with water.
What are irrigation systems?
200
These provided enough water for farmers to grow enough food.
What are irrigation systems?
200

As villages grew, what caused disagreements that led to blood shed.

Water

300

What were Farmers  constantly worried about?  

Uncontrollable water supply.      Or

Having either too much water or not enough water.

300
This was an area that flooded in the spring and held the promise of better farming.
What are the Plains?
300

What are levees?

These are a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks.

300
Fine particles of rock carried by the river.
What is silt?
300
Why did canals that were part of the irrigation system need constant repairs? 

Canals became clogged with silt, so farmers had to clean them regularly.

400

Supplying land with water to farm is called? 

Irrigation

400
An area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared.
What is Sumer?
400
These were channels dug to divert water along desired paths.
What are canals?
400
This could cause little or no water for all farmers.
What is a clogged irrigation system?
400

What is the name of the geographic area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Mesopotamia

500

True or False: Mild weather and plentiful rains made the Zagros foothills a good place to farm. 

True

500

This was the caused of food shortages.

What is rise in population?

500

How did Sumerians maintain the balance of water in their reservoirs? 

Workers  scooped water from one reservoir into another to ensure that water levels were balanced.

500

What was one example of Sumerians working together with other villages?  

Sumerians worked together to keep the irrigation system working.    OR

Unclogging canals.   OR 

Keeping reservoirs balanced. 

500
This means an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government
What is City-State?
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