Geography and Climate
Mesopotamia is bordered by the _____ and ____ rivers.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Mesopotamia was located in modern-day______.
What is Iraq?
Sumerians began to build these to protect themselves from neighboring city states.
What is walls and moats?
Soil that was rich in nutrients and good for farming.
What is fertile soil?
The Mediterranean Sea is located to the _________ of Mesopotamia?
What is West?
What does Mesopotamia mean?
What is the land between the rivers?
Sumerians in the plains had too little or too much water for farming. They fixed this problem by...
What is irrigation?
Fine particles of rock.
What is silt?
Mesopotamia is located to the _____ of the Zagros Mountains?
What is East?
or What is South East?
Mesopotamia was located in part of the __________.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
There was a food shortage in the foothills. Sumerians moved here for better farming.
What is the plains?
Means of supplying land with water.
What is irrigation?
The climate of Mesopotamia was_______.
What is hot/dry?
_______ is an area in southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared.
What is Sumer?
This clogged the canals of the irrigation systems.
What is silt?
A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks.
What is a levee?
In the spring this happened to both the Euphrates and Tigris rivers
What is flooding?
What is laws?
Or What is government?
This building material was scarce.
What is tress/ wood?
An upright slab of stone inscribed with letters and pictures to depict important events.
What is a stele?