Definitions
The area in Southwest Asia between Tigris and Euphrates rivers
What's the definition of Mesopotamia?
Why couldn't the Mesopotamians grow crops?
little water or too much water
What were the resources that the Mesopotamians were lacking in building a house?
stone, minerals, wood, and metals
flat land bordering a river
What is the definition of a floodplain?
What did the Mesopotamians use to build when they had no natural resources?
Mud
stone, wood, and metal What were the resources the Mesopotamians obtain outside their own land?
stone, wood, and metal
fine soil deposited by rivers
What's the definition of a silt?
Why did the Mesopotamians build dams?
They built dams to hold back excess water during floods.
What were the commons jobs that Mesopotamians do?
digging canals, building walls, and trading.
having little rainfall and warm temperatures
What is the definition of semiarid?
they grew surplus of grain
Why was trade important in Mesopotamia?
What are the two rivers that made the soil good for growing crops?
The Tigris and Euphrates
an amount produced in excess of what is needed
what is the definition of a surplus?
By about 6000 b.c., who built canals to carry water from the rivers to their fields?
The farmers
How was the irrigation connected to trade?
they could grow surplus grain due to irrigation which could be traded for resources from other places