Mesopotamia: A Difficult Environment
Food Shortages
Uncontrolled Water Supply in the River Valley
100
The location of Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
Mild weather and plentiful rains.
What made the foothills good for farming?
100
The kind of plant most vulnerable to uprooting from flooding
What is a young plant?
200
The rivers that flooded in Mesopotamia's plains.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
When Zagros farmers had little land.
What is 5000 B.C.E.?
200
The walls Sumerians built to prevent flooding.
What is a levee?
300
The problem caused by the flatness of the land.
What is attacking neighbors?
300
Flooding rivers made fertile soil on flat land.
What is the use of the plains in farming?
300
Farmers poking holes in walls to let in water.
What is an example of irrigation?
400
The resources the Mesopotamians lacked on the plains.
What is wood?
400
The people were driven to the Sumer region for this reason.
What is the need to grow food?
400
Strong hot winds blew this into land, making it hard to farm.
What is dust?
500
The part of Mesopotamia that fared well.
What is Northern Mesopotamia?
500
When the rivers flooded in Sumer.
What is spring?
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