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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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Name the geographic features of northern and southern Mesopotamia.
Low and flat with little rain
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What caused food shortages in the Zagros?
Increase in population
100
what was the most important thing Mesopotamians needed and for what purpose?
water for farming
100
What does dispute mean?
arguments, fights , disagreements
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. (this is where Mesopotamia gets its name)
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
Why did farmers clean canals regularly?
A clogged canal could spoil the entire system
200
What disputes led to bloodshed?
disputes over water
200
What was blocking the rivers?
What is silt?
300
Why did rivers flood in the spring?
snow melted in the mountains causing the rivers to flood.
300
What was the chief purpose of dams and reservoirs?
to store water for later use
300
Why did villagers start to depend on one or another?
What is to help each other build and maintain a complex irrigation system?
300
Why did Sumerians build walls around their cities?
to protect themselves against attacking neighbors
300
what is a city state? (3 things that make it a city state)
Early city that was like a small independent country with its own laws, government, farmland
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, building and maintaining systems that provided water across village boundaries, and attacks by neighboring communities?
400
If you were in ancient Sumer you may see a leveee beside the river, its purpose was to...
prevent flooding
400
Why did farmer have to live together?
What is working together for a common good?
400
Sumerians built these around their cities in order to protect them. (what were they and what were they built out of)
What are walls made of sun-baked bricks
400
What is a Levee?
A wall of earth built to prevent flooding
500
Why were Sumerian communities called city-states
Each of them had their own ruler and their own farmland
500
Why did Sumerians depend on each other?
in order to keep the water systems working
500
water is to reservoir as money is to...
bank
500
Sumerians dug these in order to keep enemies outside of their walls
What are moats?
500
Define Tigris and Euphrates rivers
the two LARGEST rivers in southwest Asia that flow from mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf.