Food Shortage
Why were people called Sumerians.
Their called Sumerians because they lived in Sumer.
What is silt?
Fine particles of rock/minerals.
What is a levee?
It's a wall built to prevent rivers from flooding.
What is a city-states?
A city from the Neolithic Age that was like a small country.
What is agriculture?
Agriculture is growing crops and raising animals.
What two rivers were in Sumer that had rich soil?
The two rivers were Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What happens if one group didn't clean their irrigation systems.
All the other farmers crops would fail.
What happened when the snow melted from the mountains?
The rivers would flood.
Why would city-states fight?
Because other city-states upriver would block the water from city-states downriver.
How did people get food after they stopped hunting/gathering food?
They started to plant crops, and later started to domesticate animals.
Why was there a food shortage in the first place.
The people in the foothills, or the Zagros Mountains, were dealing with over populating and there were not enough crops growing.
Why did the Sumerians work together?
They worked together for the common good.
What systems did they make to control water?
They made irrigation systems.
What did they build around their city-states?
Who were the first people to have come control over their water supply?
People with some control over their water supply were people from the Neolithic Age.
What was a danger with living near the rivers.
The rivers would flood.
How did the irrigation systems help villages grow into towns and then cities?
By having to help out by keeping the irrigation systems maintains, this brought Sumerians together.
What problem did they have with the amount of water?
Some people would have too little while others had too much.
Where were the farms in city-states?
The farms in city-states were outside of the walls built.
What animals did they domesticate?
Why was it easy to plant crops in Sumer rather than the Zagros Mountains.
The mild weather and the good amount of rain made it a good place to farm.
What were all the parts of the irrigation system?
Levees, dams, reservoirs, and canals were part of irrigation systems.
What two rivers did Sumerian people live near?
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What geographic features were Sumerians able to use to their advantage to sneak up on the other.
They were in the plains there were no hills or mountains to use for sneak attacks.
What was a problem with hunting and gathering?
They never knew when their next meal is. They also could get killed on injured.