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Irrigation Systems
Trouble in Paradise
Cause and Effect
Mesopotamia 101
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I am a pathway for water to leave levees and flow to crops.
What is a canal?
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My land is fertile and filled with abundant resources like trees and rocks. Why did I leave this place?! What place am I talking about?
What is because of a food shortage, due to lack of land to farm, and the Zagros Mountains?
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___________ _____________ caused Mesopotamians to move to the river valley.
What are food shortages?
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"Mesopotamia" is Greek for....
What is "Land between the Rivers?"
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I collect and store water.
What is a reservoir?
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I'm being attacked by my neighbors. Why did my village create a huge mud-brick wall and moat instead of create other forms of protection?
What is because the plains lacked many other resources, such as wood and stones? Also - no natural barriers to keep enemies out.
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Moving to the river valley meant that Mesopotamians had to address another problem, which was ________________.
What is an uncontrolled water supply? Or river flooding.
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In the word "Mesopotamia," what rivers are referred to?
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
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I am a wall along the river used to block the water and force it collect in man-made pools.
What is a dam?
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Name 3 reasons why no one lived on the river plains before 5000 BCE.
What is because of: 1. The land was hard and dry most of the year, 2. The rivers flooded unpredictably, and 3. The were little natural resources, like tress and stones to make tools and shelters?
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What was an unintended effect of working together to clear clogged irrigation systems?
What was creating larger communities?
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The southern part of Mesopotamia and their people?
What is Sumer, and Sumerians?
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I am an earthen wall created to prevent the river from flooding its banks.
What is a levee?
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Life's great in the Zagros Mountains! We have so many resources and farms. In fact, our population is growing! Why is this a potentially negative thing? Explain this in terms of resources.
What is because, when populations grow, more resources are used up. If space for food is a limited resource, then only so many people can live in a certain area before there is not enough land to grow sufficient food?
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Because ___________________________________, communities were FORCED to work together to clean them.
What is "because the irrigation systems CONNECTED and TRAVELED BETWEEN many different villages?
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The earliest cities in Sumer?
What is 3500 BCE?
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In what section of the irrigation system were holes poked in to allow small amounts of water to flow to crops in the fields?
What is the levee?
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ORIGIN: All change in this chapter, both positive and negative, can be traced back to one significant discovery that started a new Age. What is that discovery?
What is agriculture? Or Farming and Domesticating Animals?
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I've protected myself against attacks as best as I can, but I am no longer considered just a village anymore. Because of my new protection, what am I now considered?
What is a city-state?
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The definition of a city-state - include 3 details.
What is that they had their own rulers, their own farmlands to provide food, and that they were like small, independent countries?