Mesopotamia: A difficult Environment.
What is the Fertile Cresent called?
Mesoptamia.
What 2 rivers are between Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates river.
What is a Leave?
A wall that is built to protect a river from flooding.
What is Silt?
Fine particles of rock.
What does Dispute mean?
A strong disagreement.
What were the small independent counries called?
City States.
Where is Mesopotamia located?
The Fertile Cresent.
What is an Irrigation system?
Supplying land with lots of water that is controlled.
How did farmers maintain the Irrigation System?
The farmers often cleaned the Canals when they were clogged with silt.
What were the Sumerian cities starting to fight over?
The water supply.
What 2 rivers are Mesopotamia in between?
The Tigris and Ephurates river.
What was the first problem the people in Mesopotamia had to deal with?
Food shortages.
When the farmers moved to the River Valley what new problem did they face?
An uncontrolled water supply.
Why did all the people decide to live together?
For the Common Good.
What did the Sumerians use to build protection from their attackers?
They built mud brick walls.
What made Mesopotamia hard to live in?
Food shortages, hard soil.
In the Southern part did they have hard soil or good soil?
Hard dry soil.
What did the Sumerians do to control their unsteady water supply?
Build levees and make an irrigation system.
How much did the Sumerian communities grow?
Between 3500 and 3000 B.C.E.
What is a City State?
A small city that was like a small independent country.
On the plains, what was difficult to find.
Water and good soil.
What did the farmers need to plant crops?
Water supply, and good soil.
What is a Canal?
A human-made waterway that transports water to irrigation systems.
How did making an irrigation system make the life of the Sumerians easier?
They finally had a steady water supply for farming, transportation, and drinking.
Why did the Sumerians build mud brick walls for protection?
Because they had no natural barriers like mountains and ranges.