The name of a city in the Fertile Crescent that was hard to live in.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
Mild weather and plentiful rain in the Zagros foothills led to this.
What is good farming?
100
This provided enough water for the Sumerian people to grow food.
What is irrigation systems?
100
Sumerian cities fought over this.
What is the right to use more water?
100
Began around 3500 B.C.E., a change in communities.
What is the change from villages to walled cities?
200
The most common occupation in Mesopotamia.
What is farming?
200
Rocks were abundant in the hills for making this.
What is tools?
200
This problem arose with the irrigation systems.
What is maintaining irrigation systems across the village boundaries?
200
There were no natural barriers in the plains, causing this problem.
What is difficult to protect the cities?
200
A problem that the farmers faced with water.
What is too little or too much water?
300
The two rivers that run through the plains of Mesopotamia.
What is Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
300
The need of food made people do this.
Moving from the foothills to the plains.
300
This clogged the canals of the irrigation systems.
What is silt?
300
Strong walls and moats around the city helped do this.
What is protect themselves?
300
The Sumerians built these to control the water.
What is complex irrigation systems?
400
Few natural barriers led to these attacks in Mesopotamia.
What is ENEMY attacks?
400
The name of the region that the people moved to because of the need for food.
What is Sumer?
400
When villages grew into towns.
Around 3500 B.C.E. - 3000 B.C.E.
400
Mud bricks that were baked in the sun until hard made these.
What is the protective walls?
400
By 3000 B.C.E., Sumerian farming villages turned into walled city-states because of this.
What is the solution to challenges?
500
• food shortages in the hills
• an uncontrolled water supply on the plains
• difficulties in building and maintaining systems that provided water across village boundaries
• attacks by neighboring communities
What is four major problems?
500
The condition of the Zagros foothills for most of the year.
Hard and dry.
500
Working on the irrigation systems to remove silt and transfer water from one reservoir to another made the communities do this.