Mesopotamian Trade
Dangerous waters and pirates/thieves
What is the typical climate or Biome for Mesopotamia?
Desert
Growing plants and raising animals for food
Agriculture
Why was the land between the two rivers soo Fertile, or good for farming?
The rivers flooded every year (Spring)
The statement below is an example of a ________________
"The Mesopotamians used irrigation systems to control water"
Quote or Evidence
Why could ancient Mesopotamians begin trading with eachother?
They had a surplus of goods (Extra goods)
______________ people moved from place to place and do not permanently settle anywhere.
Nomadic
To become an expert in one thing
Specialize
What did early Mesopotamians do to farm their land year around?
Learned to control the Flood Waters
Quotes with quotation marks (" ") are used in which part of an answer to an essential question? Claim, Evidence, or Elaboration?
Evidence
Where would Mesopotamians most likely get gold from?
Egypt
The two rivers early people settled in in Mesopotamia
Euphrates and Tigris Rivers
Trade
What invention helped Mesopotamians plant seeds?
The Plow
The statement below is an example of a ________________
Mesopotamians controlled river floods by creating levees and canals.
Claim
Someone who sells goods is called a ________________
Merchant
What happened every spring that made the soil fertile?
The rivers Flooded
Surplus
What new technologies did they create to control the water?
Canals and Levees
The sentence starter below is for a ______________ statement:
This proves my claim because...
Elaboration
Who wrote down and kept records of business transactions?
Scribes
Where was ancient Mesopotamia established or created?
Ancient Iraq
Supplying or controlling water to land to help crops grow
Irrigation
Ancient Mesopotamians used ________________ to tame wild plants and animals for their own use
Domestication
What is an acceptable sentence starter for the essential question below?
How did advances in farming technology allow people to specialize in other jobs?
Advances in farming technology allowed people to specialize in other jobs by...