Geography
What is a river that flow into larger rivers
What is a tributary?
What is the supply of water to help with the growth of crops in Mesopotamia?
What is irrigation?
The first known settlements in Southern Mesopotamia formed around the 5000 B.C, this culture is known as what?
What is the Ubaid Culture?
What is the southern part of a region that Sumer lay in?
What is a Fertile Crescent?
Mesopotamian people stored water in areas of low land called what?
What is a basin?
They lived simple lives using what to work their fields and what to harvest their crops
What are stone hoes and clay sickles used for?
Long ago, what was the land between the Tigris and Euphrates called?
What is Mesopotamia?
To protect their land what did they put up to prevent flooding from ruining their crops?
What are dikes, or dirt walls built along the river banks?
How did simple life give way to one that required rules and organisation?
Why were leaders needed and why did one individual in each community need to be a village chief?
When the two rivers flood soil and tiny rocks are deposited to make what?
What is silt?
What helped to control the flow of water?
What are dams?
How did life change for people in the Ubaid culture?
Why did people change build irrigation systems, larger homes and temples, produced surpluses of crops, had leaders, created pottery, and traded?
Why is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates called the Fertile Crescent?
What is the rich soil found in the Fertile Crescent?
How did the climate in southern Mesopotamia affect how early people farmed?
What caused early farmers to develop new agricultural techniques to adapt to the dry climate?
How did the Sumerians form one of the worlds largest civilizations?
what did the Sumerians do by using agricultural techniques.