People
Ur-Nammu's great-grandson
Who was Shu-sin?
When water gets soaked into the earth, but some evaporates, leaving more salt on the ground than there was before.
What is salinization?
Avoid planting every other year
Weed fallowing
A foolish son
Who was Ibbi-Sin? Shu-sin's son
What is barley?
A brand-new strategy to ward off the enemies.
First to rebel and pay tribute
Who was Eshnunna?
Allowing weeds with deep roots to grow + lowering water table + allowing salt to wash back down the topsoil
What is weed fallowing?
The king did this to stop an extortionist
He waited for another enemy to capture him.
Nomads who threatened the Sumerians (3 possible answers)
Famine began due to these 3 problems.
What are salty fields, a lack of grain, and a lack of meat?
A method to get back decades of loss.
Revenge
Governor mentioned in chapter
"Circumscribed agricultural land"
What is the unlimited expanse of fields?
The Amorites did this to prevent starvation.
They attacked a nation that still had some food.