Section 1
A difficult Enviroment
A difficult Enviroment
What difficulties were in building and maintaining systems that provided water across village boundaries?
There were plenty of reeds, which are weeds that grow near rivers
What was the problem after they moved down to the plains?
Either too much or too little water.
What other controls did the Sumerians learn?
They dug canals to shape the paths. And they built dams along the river.
What was the new problem that arose?
How to maintain an irrigation system across the village boundaries.
What did the farmers begin constructing?
Strong walls out of Mud bricks, Moats
Where was one good place that was good for the neolithic age for growing crops?
The plains.
What made the foothills a good place to farm?
Mild Weather and Plentiful rains.
What did they begin creating?
Sumerians farmers began creating irrigation systems.
What did the system need?
Constant car and repair.
What problem did the framers face?
Have either to much or to little.
What is one thing that was hard to find?
Materials
What happens during 500 B.C.E?
Farmers in the Zagros foothills did not have enough land.
What happened after rain and snow came?
Flooding on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Did the farmers have to work for the Common Good Yes or No?
Yes.
What did the Sumerians fight over?
The right to use more water.
What was the river valley called?
Sumer.
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers, What did they discover?
They discovered a large area of land.
What other ways did did the Sumerians use control the water supply.
Canals and dams.
Did they depend on each other to build and maintain complexity?
Yes they did.
To control water supply what did the Sumerians build?
They built a complex irrigation system.
What does Mesopotamia mean?
The land between rivers.
Driven by the food what is one thing they had to do?
They had to move out onto the plains.
What was one of the biggest problems the farmers had?
Uncontrolled Water Supply.
Why did farmers have to clean the canals?
Because they were getting clogged with silt.
What were the walled cities of summer like?
Independent Countries.