Geography
This boomerang shaped region in the Middle East is where Mesopotamians first showed up.
What is The Fertile Crescent?
This is a word for small, independent cities that governed and controlled themselves separately from each other.
What is a city-state?
These man-made waterways helped farmers bring water to their crops.
What are canals?
This season brought intense rainfall and melted the mountain snow, causing the Euphrates & Tigris Rivers to flood.
What is spring?
These two rivers form the boundaries of Ancient Mesopotamia and were vital resources to the Ancient Sumerians.
What are The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers.
This southern plains region of Mesopotamia is where the first organized city-states developed.
What is Sumer?
This important farming & watering system was first created by the Sumerians.
What is irrigation?
This land provided very little protection and left city-states unprotected from invasion.
What are the plains?
This mountain range provided timber, stones, and other resources that Ancient Mesopotamian people used to start civilizations.
What are the Zagros Moutains?
Driven by the need for land to grow food, these people were the first to move from the foothills of the Zagros Mountains onto the plains of Mesopotamia.
Who are the Sumerians?
These raised sides or banks along rivers help to protect farms & homelands from flooding.
Before they learned to control them, this unpredictable natural event would destroy Sumerian crops and homes.
What is a flood?