Irrigation
Mesopotamian Terrain
Vocabulary
Sumer
Misc.
100
Levees are made out of these
What are mud bricks
100
True or false, the Zagros foothills had plenty of rain once a year.
What is True
100
This word means to move from one place to another
What is Migrate
100
True or false, Sumer is located in Northern Mesopotamia
What is False
100
These foothills are located in Upper Mesopotamia
What is the Zagros Foothills
200
Canals are ___________
What is Man made water ways
200
Mesopotamia is surrounded by these two rivers
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
200
This word means land or environment
What is terrain
200
Sumerian villages depended on each other to keep the water systems working, because of what
What is Silt
200
The Definition of Mesopotamia
What is The land between two rivers
300
Flooding happens when there is too much
What is rain
300
This word is the antonymn of flat and is often used to describe Mesopotamia
What is Hilly
300
Sumer was full of flat ______________
What are plains
300
This was one of the largest city-state in Sumer
What is Ur
300
Citation means to show
What is Evidence or Proof
400
Levees are build along the __________ of a river
What is banks
400
What did mesopotamians decide to do when there was a food shortage.
What is go south to Sumer
400
What word can be defined as Easy to grow
What is fertile
400
To keep attackers out of their villages, Sumerians dug these water filled trenches around their city walls.
What are Moats
400
In the irrigation project Legos represented
What is mud bricks
500
What are the 4 methods of Sumerian irrigation
What are, Levees, Canals, Ditches, and Dams
500
This reason,initiated by migration from Africa, led to a food shortage in the Zagros foothills.
What is Increased population
500
This system helped the mesopotamians control the water from the rivers
What is Irrigation
500
Sumer communities are called city states because each had its own ruler and _____________
What is farmland
500
Along with Bring water to dry areas, these are two reasons for irrigation
What is preventing floods and bring water to crops
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