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Movement of water from one place to another, typically for purposes of agriculture.
What is irrigation?
What are food shortages?
Rivers on both sides of the region.
What were the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
People of a society having the food they need to survive and more.
What is a stable food supply?
Type of writing in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
Fine particles of rock that are left behind when flood waters recede. Great for soil.
What is silt?
The first area/region where hunters and gatherers began to settle and grow their own food.
What is Sumer?
Means "Land between the rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
Organization of society into different social levels, jobs, and amounts of power.
What is a social structure?
Sumerian social structure from top to bottom.
What were priests/kings/nobles/government, merchants/artisans/farmers/fishers, and slaves?
Walls of earth built to prevent a river from overflowing its banks and flooding the land.
What are levees?
The biggest issue in early Sumer.
What was an uncontrollable water supply (flooding, etc.)?
Region of very fertile land that is shaped like a crescent moon.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Group of individuals that should ensure that life in the society is orderly, safe, and ran well.
What is a government?
The earliest form of cuneiform that used symbols standing for an object.
What were pictographs?
A waterway dug by humans to bring water from river closer to fields.
What are canals?
After Sumer fixed the flooding issues with irrigation, this major issue came next due to lack of cooperation and lots of selfishness.
What was the clogging of waterways with silt?
Body of water that the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow into.
What is the Persian Gulf?
Involves both a set of beliefs and forms of worship.
What is a religious system?
One of the world's first legal codes actually written down and recorded for people to see.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
Waterways dug to surround city-states as a means of protection against attacks.
What are moats?
Issue in Sumer when the sharing of a common resource, water, didn't go so well.
What were attacks by neighboring communities?
Two mountain ranges in Mesopotamian north.
What are the Zagros and Taurus Mountains?
Ability to communicate thoughts and ideas without speech or body language.
What is a highly developed written language?
Three technological innovations from Mesopotamia.
What are wheels, chariots, arches, and plows?