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Early people who lived in the began farming and living in small village
Fertile Crescent
maintaining
to keep something in good condition
Material
resource that can be used to make something else
what drove people to move out of the foothills to the plains of sumer.
the need for food
Mesopotamia is located in the modern country of.
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Moats, or ditches filled with water, would surround these walls and help keep out
enemies.
Over time, the Sumerians learned other ways to control the
supply of water
constructed
to build or some kind of structure
why did farmers clean the canals regualrly?
A clogged canal could ruin or spoil the system
whats a city-state
Early city that was a small, Independent country with its own laws.
is a Greek word that means the “land between the rivers.”
Mesopotamia
farmers were constantly struggling to raise crops with either too little or
too much water
silt
fine partials of rock
In sumer, the water supply was?
unrealibe because there could be too little or to much.
When farmers cleaned the canals, They were working for the
common good
rain and melted snow from the mountains flowed into the causing them to flood across the plains
Tigris and Euphrates rivers
The plains provided no .There were no mountain ranges or rushing rivers to keep out enemies.
natural barriers
levee
a wall to block or to prevent flooding
what caused the sumerians to build larger communites?
they needed to maintain irrigation systems
Water is a reservoir as money is to.
bank
hey also constructed dams along the river to block the water and force it to collect in pools they had built so that they could store the for later use.
water
most , enjoying the benefits of a protected and governed independent area.
Sumerians lived in city-states
what would happen if you were a sumerian farmer and you chose not to clean the canals
the system could clog and ruin everyones crops
why did the sumerians build walls around cities?
to protect themselves
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