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What is Levees.
Who were an ancient people who lived in Sumer, the plains region of southern Mesopotamia.
What is Sumerians
The name of Mesopotamia comes from its location, which was
between two rivers.
Why was silt a problem for the people of Sumer?
It clogged the irrigation canals.
A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks.
What is Levee.
Disputes over what often led to bloodshed?
What is water.
How did farmers living in the foothills solve the food shortage?
Farmers moved from the foothills to the plains of Sumer, near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What solution did people in the Zagros foothills find to fix the problem of food shortages?
moving to the south
If you were in ancient Sumer, you might see a levee beside a river. Why was the levee built?
to prevent floods
In ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Mesopotamia
The Sumerian's most important invention.
What is the wheel.
What made the foothills a good place to farm?
What is mild weather and plentiful rain.
Using natural resources found in the environment, Sumerians built strong walls with
bricks made of mud.
What was the chief purpose of dams and reservoirs?
to store water for later use
A means of supplying land with water.
What is irrigation.
By 3000 BCE Sumerian farming villages had turned into what?
What are walled city-states.
In what year did some historians believe that farmers did not have enough land to grow food?
What is 5000 BCE
The people of Sumer constructed moats to
protect cities from attack.
Why did the villages of Sumer depend on each other?
They cooperated to keep the water systems working.
Sumerian city-states were ruled by these people.
What are kings.
Sumerians developed this written language in 2400 B.C.E.
What is Cuneiform
The plains lacked these two important resources, what are they?
What is trees and stones for shelters.
An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower.
What is a ziggurat.
Why did the rivers flood in the spring?
Snow melted in the mountains where the rivers began.
An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government.
What is city-state.