Vocabulary
Difficult Enviroment
Food Shortages
Uncontrolled Water Supply
Attacks
100
A resource that can be used to make something else.
What is the definition of materials?
100
These people were farmers and their farms needed water.
Who are Mesopotamians?
100
Mild weather and plentiful rains made this place a good place to farm.
What made the foothills a good place to farm?
100
During this time, rain and melted snow from the mountains flowed into the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, causing them to flood across the plains.
What happened in Spring?
100
As these types of cities grew, they fought over the right to use more water.
What happened to the Sumerian cities?
200
Arranged it a difficult way.
What is the definition of complex?
200
Materials were difficult to find on this type of landform.
What is hard to find on the plains?
200
Some historians believe that by 5000 B.C.E., farmers in this place did not have enough land to grow food for the increasing population.
What happened in Zagros foothills?
200
For at specific time, the sunbaked soil was dry and hard as stone.
What happen during much of the rest of the year?
200
These were almost all over water because they fought so hard to earn more.
What are some of the disputes?
300
To keep something in good condition through continual repair.
What is the definition of maintaining?
300
• Food shortages in the hills • an uncontrolled water supply on the plains • difficulties in building and maintaining systems that provided water across village boundaries • attacks by neighboring communities
What are the four main problems that Mesopotamians had to survive through?
300
Below the foothills and to the south, two rivers ran through flat plains.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris rivers?
300
These people began to create irrigation systems for their fields. They built levees along the sides of the river to prevent flooding.
What did Sumerian farmers do?
300
The Sumerians looked for ways to protect their cities from neighboring people or _________.
Why are other communities bad to some Sumerians?
400
An area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared.
What is the definition of Sumer?
400
It was not easy to live where?
How do people live in the part of the Fertile Crescent called Mesopotamia.
400
Driven by the need to grow food, people moved out of the place they lived before.
Why did people move out of the foothills and go to plains?
400
Over time, the Sumerians learned other ways to control their supply of something.
What is control the supply of water?
400
The Sumerians began to build strong things around their communities.
What are strong walls used for?
500
A means of supplying land with water.
What is the definition of irrigation?
500
There was little what in Mesopotamia.
How much rain was there in Mesopotamia?
500
This region became known as this name. The people that live here are called Sumerians.
What is Sumer?
500
Faced with such dramatic seasonal changes, farmers had to constantly struggle to grow something.
What happened to the crops?
500
The walled cities of Sumer were like independent countries. A specific type of person call them city-states.
What are historians?
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