Vocabulary
Farmers ran out of this resource in the foothills, which led to food shortages.
What is land?
The farmers in the foothills moved here after food shortages.
What are the river plains?
This river is the North-most river in the Mesopotamia region.
What is the Tigris River?
DOUBLE! This area had plentiful rain, good building materials, and decent soil.
The foothills of the Zagros Mountains
DOUBLE! Farmers built these to hold water in reserve for droughts.
What are reservoirs?
This area had few natural resources for building.
The plains
DOUBLE! This is fine particles of rock that clogged canals.
What is silt.
DOUBLE! Drastic weather changes caused too little or too much of this resource in the Sumerian region.
What is water?
Villages in Sumer began to do this to maintain their complex irrigation system.
What is work together with other communities?
Sumer rests between the rivers and foothills of these mountains.
What is the Zagros Mountains.
This is the reason the people ran out of land in the foothills.
Increased population
An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own farmland and ruler.
What is a city-state?
DOUBLE! The western coast of Mesopotamia rests up against this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea.
This area was flat and had little rain.
What are the plains
An area in southern Mesopotamia where villages combined to build a city-state
What is Sumer?
Sumerians built these two things outside their cities to protect themselves.
What are moats and mud-brick walls?
The Tigris & Euphrates rivers flow in which direction toward which body of water?
Southeast toward the Persian Gulf