Geography
What does the word "Mesopotamia" mean?
What is "Between Rivers"
What problem did Sumerian farmers have on the plains?
What is uncontrolled water supply
Who were the people in the first known civilization
What is Sumerians
What did Sumerian farmers grow?
What are grains and vegetables?
Independent city with a government.
What is city-state
What TWO rivers does Mesopotamia fall between?
What is Tigris and Euphrates
What was the weather in Sumer like MOST of the year?
What is dry and hot
Who are the people that record things in Sumerian City-states?
What is scribe
What body of water is southwest of the Fertile Crescent?
What is the Red Sea?
A ridge that runs parallel to a river that protects surrounding areas from flooding.
What is levee
Why did the Sumerian people move out of the Zagros foothills?
What is food shortage
Why did Sumerian farmers move to the plains?
What is growing population caused a food shortage
How did neighboring Sumerian City-States work together and depend on each other?
What is trading and bartering and/or sharing of information.
What is the Nile River?
Rocks and sand that carried by running water.
What is silt
In the Spring, what was a problem farmers faced on the plains?
What is melted snow caused flooding on the plains
What is ONE farming technique Sumerians used to regulate water?
What is levee, canal, dam
What did Sumerians do to protect themselves?
What is build walls and moats
What mountain chains are located in northern Mesopotamia?
What are the Taurus Mountains and the Zagros Mountains?
The supply of water to land to help crops grow.
What is irrigation system
What is the geographical area of the Sumer region and Mesopotamia called in history?
What is Fertile Crescent
What is the farming system that Sumerian farmers used to fix the uncontrolled water supply in their farms?
What is irrigation system
What did city-states fight over?
What is water
How many social classes did the Sumerians have?
What is four?
A lake that is used for water supply storage.
What is reservoir