Middle East Map
Mesopotamia Map
Mesopotamia Region
Innovations
Problems/Solutions
100
What Country is this:
Egypt
100
What is this Region called?
Fertile Cresent
100
Mesopotamia is a Greek word that means ____.
Land between two Rivers.
100
What is the name of the system in which humans use man-made path to use water to their advantage?
Irrigation
100
What did the people on the Zagros Mountain do in response to their food shortage?
Moved to the Tigris and Euphrates River Valley
200
What country is this?
Saudi Arabia
200
What is this Region called?
Mesopotamia
200
What country AND continent was Mesopotamia located in?
Iraq; Asia
200
What materials did Mesopotamians build their homes out of?
Reeds and Mud
200
The flooding of the rivers became difficult to handle. So, Mesopotamians used ____.
Irrigation to channel the water away from their villages and into their farms.
300
What TWO countries are these?
Israel and Jordan
300
What are the name of these two rivers from TOP to BOTTOM?
Tigris and Euphrates
300
The soil was good for farming because of the rivers' seasonal ____.
Flooding
300
Without any stones or wood, why was mud bricks the best option for building houses?
Studier and lasts longer than reed house.
300
How did villages solve the situation of their canals clogging?
Cooperating together to clean and maintain canals.
400
What TWO countries are these?
Syria and Iraq
400
What are the names of these two bodies of Water?
Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
400
What natural resources did Mesopotamia lack?
. Metal
. Wood
. Stone
400
Mesopotamians were able to trade with other nations because they had a _____ of food.
Surplus
400
How did Sumerians solve the issue of constant invaders?
Build mud brick walls and moats around cities.
500
What body of water is this?
Persian Gulf
500
What is the name of this City?
Babylon
500
Why were Mesopotamians so easily invaded?
Lacked natural barriers.
500
What ways did Sumerians irrigate water to their crops.
. Canals
. Levees
. Dams
. Reservoirs
500
Plowing for crops became difficult to do on their own. What did Mesopotamians used to plow their fields?
Cattle with plow mounted on their back.