It's tough out here
Where's the beef?
Water everywhere!
Irrigation systems
Angry Neighbors
100
These are the two rivers that can be found in the area that we are studying.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
These are the mountains in northern part of this country that created good places to settle until it got too crowded.
What is Zagros?
100
These two rivers flood every Spring.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
100
These are the two rivers that needed to be controlled for Sumer to be successful.
What are the Tigers and Euphrates rivers?
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, disagreements over this led to blood shed.
What is the right to use more water?
300
"It is not easy living in this part of the...called Mesopotamia."
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
This was an area that flooded in the spring and held the promise of better farming.
What are the Plains?
300
These are a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks.
What are levees?
300
Fine particles of rock carried by the river.
What is silt?
300
This means a strong disagreement.
What is dispute?
400
These two natural features were scarce to be found.
What are stones and trees?
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
This term means "in ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
500
The Greek word that means "the land between two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
500
This was the cause of food shortages.
What is rise in population?
500
These are large pools of collected water and for use for another time.
What are reservoirs?
500
This was the solution that the Sumerians found to blocked irrigation systems.
What is working together with other villages?
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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