Vocab 1
the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.
Irrigation
What Process was used on Fertile Crescent?
Agriculture
What River starts with an E?
Euphrates
What technology was used for farming?
Seeder Plow
How did mesopotamians adapt to the climate?
They used irrigations
Process of farming
Agriculture
Leader of a City-state
Empire
What River starts with an T?
Tigris
What technology was used for transportation on water?
Guffas
What was the climate like in Mesopotamia?
Hot and Dry
fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbor.
Silt
Little water,No rain
Drought
What were the 2 mountains called?
Taurus,Zagros
What were roads called?
Paved roads
What happens to this area in the Spring?
It floods
the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.
Civilization
an amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply over demand.
Surplus
What was the first area discovered?
Fertile Crescent
What technology was used to stop water?
Levees
What does the word "Mesopotamia" mean?
The land between the rivers
What are city-states?
large citys
denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
(Symbols)
Cuneiform
When was Mesopotamia Established?
3500 BCE
What technology was used to drain water?
Dams,ditches
What's the Relative location of Mesopotamia?
Iraq