Mesopotamia: A Difficult Environment
were there food shortages in Mesopotamia
Yes
Several thousand years, these good conditions allowed the number of people in Mesopotamia to decrease dramatically.(true or false)
false
What was farmers biggest problems
uncontrolled water supply
what was wrong with the canals
they were to full of silt and water
why did some people locate up river
So they can be closer to where the river starts
On the plains, are materials are easy to find
No
What made foothills a good place to farm
Mild weather and plentiful rains
during the spring, rain and melted snow from the mountains flowed into what two rivers
Tigris and Euphrates
workers have to scooped water from one reservoir into another
to make sure that water levels were balanced
disputes over water became so intense that they.......
often led to bloodshed
What was the first major problem Mesopotamian's faced
Food shortages
why did villages began to suffer from food shortages
Zagros foothills did not have enough land to grow food to increasing population
What did the seasonal changes do to the river
There was too much or two little water supply
why did they always have to clean there canals
if one canal was clogged it would disrupt the entire system
what did the Sumerians do to protect themselves
They built barriers around their village
What was scarce on the plains
Wood and stones
The plains lacked......what, and for making what (finish the sentence)
trees and stones for making shelters and tools
why did they create dams
so that they could store the water for later use.
why did Sumerians build larger communities
they needed to maintain there irrigation systems
What did they use to make the barriers
strong walls out of mud bricks that were baked in the sun until hard
The rivers overflowed onto the plains during flood season but most of the year......
The soil was hard and dry
One of the areas that had good conditions for growing crops was the
rolling foothills of the Zagros Mountains in northern Mesopotamia.
What way did they control water
they created irrigation systems for their fields
Why did people who lived in different villages have to work together to clear the silt from the canals to keep them open
Because they depend on one another to build and maintain this complex irrigation system
I did this farmers lay outside instead of within the barrier walls
In case of attack, farmers fled the fields for safety within the city walls