Mesopotamia: A Difficult Environment
The land between the rivers.
Silt
A means of supplying land with water.
Irrigation
A strong disagreement
Dispute
An early city that was like a small, independent country.
City-states
The 2 rivers that are between Mesopotamia.
Tigris and Euphrates river.
What area had mild weather and plentiful rain?
The foothills of the Zagros mountain.
Why did the river flood every spring?
The river floods every spring because the rain melted all the snow on the mountains.
What did the Sumerians fight over?
They fought over the right to use water.
What forced settlers to move to the plains?
Food shortages forced settlers to move to the plains.
What is another name for Mesopotamia
The fertile crescent.
What resources did they have in the hills?
Timber and stone for tools.
What was the name of the things that they put in the ground to not flood?
By about what year did most Sumerians live in City-States?
By around 300 B.C.E
3500 B.C.E
There were a lot of natural barriers true or false.
False
What year did the farmers have not enough land to farm?
5000 B.C.E
What were the other ways that they controlled the water supply?
They dug canals and forced water into reservoirs.
They were made out of mud bricks from the silt.
When did the neolithic ages start?
8000 B.C.E
Why couldn't the Sumerians find anything to build with?
There were only reeds and a few trees in the plains.
Why did they not have enough food for everyone to eat?
Their population grew dramatically because of the good area but there were too many people.
What was the reason that farmers couldn't farm a lot?
The water supply was always unreliable.
What did they build to protect themselves from attacking neighbors?
They dug moats and built walls around the city.
What solutions made the villages become city-states?