Mesopotamia: A difficult Environment
What is the Fertile Crescent called
Mesopotamia
Sumer is a place in....
Mesopotamia
what was one thing Sumerian farmers made to control water.
Canals, Reservoir, levees, etc
what is one problem about the Irrigation systems
how to maintain the irrigation system across village boundaries.
What do Historians call an independent state
City-States
what were small independent countries called
City-states
Why did Villages began to suffer from food shortages
People did not have enough land to grow crops and the population grew to much.
What was one of the biggest problems farmers had to face when going to Sumer
Uncontrolled water supply
Who did people clean the canals
they would scoop water from one reservoir to another to make sure they were all balanced
Food shortages had forced settlers in Mesopotamia to move......
out of Foothills down to river Valleys
what two Rivers are Mesopotamia in between
Tigris River and the Euphrates River
what made the foothills a good place to farm
Mild weather and plentiful rains
Why was raising crops in Sumer hard
because of the hot land and there would be to little or to much water.
Canals were clogged because.....
people would not clean out their canals and then other people wouldn't be able to get there water
to control the water supply they built...
complex irrigation system.
What made Mesopotamia hard to live in
The hot sun and very little rain
Why did people move out of the foothills to the plains
to grow better crops
why would the Tigris and Euphrates river overflow
because of all of the rain and melted snow would build up and overflow
How did they fixed the Problem about clogged canals
villages had to worked together to unclog the canals
what did Sumerians build to protect there City-State
They built walls and dug moats around there city to protect them.
On the plains, what was difficult to find?
Building Materials
What is one place that has good conditions for growing crops
The Zagros Mountains in Northern Mesopotamia
What made Sumerian farmers make Irrigation systems.
They need a way to control the water flow
what are the names of the city states in Sumer
Umma, Lagash, Ur, Larsa, Uruk, Nippur, Kish
what were the walls for protection made out of
mud Bricks