Vocabulary
Major Problems
Major Solutions
Geography of Sumer
Mics.
100
This is a means of supplying land with water.
What is irrigation?
100
Farmers ran out of this resource in the foothills.
What is land?
100
The farmers in the foothills moved here to avoid the food shortages.
What are the plains?
100
This river it the North most river in the Mesopotamia region.
What is the Tigris River?
100
The earliest cities in Sumer date back to about this year.
What is 3500 BCE?
200
This is a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks.
What is a levee?
200
In the spring, the rain and the melted snow caused this.
What is flooding of the rivers?
200
Farmers built these along the river banks as part of an advanced irrigation system.
What are levees?
200
This river is the South most river in the Mesopotamia region.
What is the Euphrates River?
200
By this year, most Sumerians were living in city-states.
What is 3000 BCE
300
This is fine particles of rock that clogged canals.
What is silt.
300
Drastic weather changes caused too little or too much of this resource in the Sumerian region.
What is water?
300
Sumerians began to do this to maintain their complex irrigation system.
What is work together with other communities?
300
Sumer rests at the base of foothills of these mountains.
What is the Zagros Mountains.
300
This phrase is a abbreviated "BCE."
What is Before Common Era?
400
An early city that was like a small, indepentend country with its own laws and government.
What is a city-state?
400
These parts of the irrigation system would often become clogged, disrupting the whole system.
What is a canal?
400
To help maintain their complex irrigation system, Sumerians began living in these.
What are large communities?
400
The western coast of Mesopotamia rests up against this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea.
400
This development marks the start of the Neolithic Age.
What is farming?
500
An area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared.
What is Sumer?
500
Struggles to control water often lead neighbors to this.
What is bloodshed, disputes, battles, etc.
500
Sumerians built these two things outside their cities to protect themselves.
What are moats and walls?
500
Most of Mesopotamia lacked these two natural landforms to protect themselves.
What are mountains and rivers.
500
This is the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
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