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Importance of the River
Tigris and Euphrates
The Need for Irrigation
Ubaid Culture
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These two rivers are very important to ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
The valley between the Tigris and Euphrates is called this meaning "the land between the two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
100
Destruction of crops and livestock and sweeping away of villages.
What are effects of a flood?
100
Where the Ubaid culture lived.
What is Southern Mesopotamia?
200
These people speared, hooked and netted fish from the river.
What are fishers?
200
The first civilization arose in this area.
What is Sumer?
200
When it was hot and dry.
What is a drought?
200
The year the Ubaid culture began in Southern Mesopotamia.
What is 5000 B.C.?
300
These people raised crops and grazed livestock on the wide, fertile plains.
What are farmers?
300
Rivers that flow into a larger river.
What are tributaries?
300
People built walls or dikes along the riverbanks and dams to control water flow.
What are methods for dealing with a flood?
300
Ubaid people grew these.
What is wheat and barley?
400
This is called having more than enough food--it allowed people to do other activities other than farming and create more advanced cultures.
What is a surplus of crop?
400
Northern Mesopotamia sat on this high flat land.
What is a plateau?
400
People dug canals and store water in basins.
What are methods for dealing with a drought?
400
The belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
500
These were ways the river supported permanent settlements.
What is allowing people to have water for drinking, cooking, bathing, fishing and farming?
500
This made the land of Southern Mesopotamia good for farming.
What is fertile soil?
500
A way for people to bring water to the land.
What is irrigation?
500
Creating painted pottery and trading.
What are changes to the Ubaid culture or more advance culture?