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Mesopotamia
Food and Water
Building and Irigation
Attacks and from Small Villages to Large City-States
Random Vocabulary
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True or False: People lived in the Mesopotamia because of the great view.
What is False?
100
Was there a food shortage or a food overwhelm in the Mesopotamia?
What is food shortage?
100
Did farmers sometimes go through the difficult seasons that made there crops die.
What is yes? They sometimes went trough dad changes.
100
As the Sumerians grew did they start to fight a lot?
What is yes?
100
What is a mean of supplying land with water?
What is irrigation?
200
Name the rivers that ran though Mesopotamia from left to right.
What is Euphrates River and Tigris River?
200
What did farmers build along the sides of rivers to keep them from overflowing?
What is leeves?
200
How large were were some cities?
What is several thousand people?
200
What was blocking the rivers?
What is silt?
300
What were two problems in the Mesopotamia?
Answers will vary
300
Was mild weather and plentiful rains a good place to farm in the foothills.Explain.
It was a good place to farm in the foothills because there was a lot of good soil, sunlight, and lots of good rain.
300
Why did villagers start to depend on one or another?
What is to help each other build and maintain a complex irrigation system?
400
What are the four major problems that the Mesopotamians faced in the environment?
What is Food storage in the hills, an uncontrolled water supply on the plains, hard times in building and maintaining systems that provided water across village boundaries, and attacks by neighboring communities?
400
Bellow the foothills and to the south, the Euphrates and the Tigris River river ran through what?
What is the flat plains?
400
Why did farmer have to live together?
What is working together for a common good?
500
Name the geographic features of northern and southern Mesopotamia.
What is little water? What is a lot of water? What are flatlands? What are hills?
500
Name two other ways Sumerians controlled their water problems.
What are dams? What are canals?
500
Between the 3500 and 3000 B.C.E, what happened to the villages?Explain
The villages grew into towns because more people started to join and they had to build more houses witch took up more space and the space grew bigger and bigger.