A difficult environment and Food shortages on the hills
What part of the Fertile Crescent was difficult to live in?
Mesopotamia
The water in Sumer is?
Unreliable the farms had to much water or to little
Why did the farmers clean the canals regularly?
The canal could spoil everything
It is true that Sumerians fought when one city kept water away from another city?
Yes
When they built boundaries what did the people have to do?
They had to cooperate with one another
Where did the first people farm at?
The Zagros mountains
How did they hold back the water supply.
They built levees, they dug canals, and they built reservoirs
When they clean the canals they are doing it for who?
The common good
Why did the people build walls around there cities?
To protect themselves from attacking neighbors
What did they do to control the water supply's?
They built complex irrigation systems
What two rivers was Mesopotamia in between?
The Tigris and the Euphrates river
Water to a reservoir is like money to a ?
Bank
What caused then the build larger communicates?
To maintain irrigation systems
How did they make the walls for the city-states?
With stone and mud
They built walls up to do what?
Protect themselves from attacks for water
What did they call villages combined together with walls?
City-states
What was the key to successful farming?
By controlling the water supplies
You don't wanna help clean out the canals, what might happen if you don't help?
The system could clog up and everyone crops will get ruined
What was the major flaws in system of the canals?
Cities located upriver could block the water flow from cites downstairs
If they had to cooroparte this led them to what?
Larger cites which they called city-states
Why was Mesopotamia hard to live in?
The sun too hot and there is little to no rain
What kind of soil does Sumer have?
Dry
What would they use dams for?
To hold back the water from the rivers so the town won't flood
In case of an attack what would farmers do?
Framers fled the fields for safety within the city walls
The independent city-states often what with each other?
Fought with each other