Food
Water
Lifestyle
City-States
Responding to the Environment
100
How humans got food in the Old Stone Age
What is hunting and gathering?
100
How the Mesopotamians controlled their water supply
What is irrigation systems?
100
The discovery that changed the world.
What is Agriculture?
100
A city that has its own government system
What is a city-state?
100
How the Mesopotamians responded to the food shortage.
What is moving to the river plains?
200
How humans gained a stable food supply
What is farming/agriculture?
200
How the Mesopotamians solved the irrigation system clogs.
What is working together?
200
Why neighboring cities attacked each other.
What is stealing food and water?
200
What separates different city-states.
What are boundaries?
200
How the Mesopotamians prepared for droughts.
What is build water reservoirs?
300
Why the Sumerians left the Zagros foothills.
What is a food shortage?
300
The material that clogged the irrigation systems in Mesopotamia.
What is silt?
300
Why cities were created in the New Stone Age
What is a stable food supply?
300
Why walls were built around the cities.
What are attacks by neighboring communities?
300
The material used to make walls out of natural resources.
What are sun-baked bricks?
400
The reason we can settle in one place and build cities.
What is a stable food supply?
400
DAILY DOUBLE: How water was used to defend Mesopotamian cities.
What is a moat?
400
The most likely explanation for nomadic herders moving from place to place.
What is to search for food sources?
400
The main purpose of this design settlement.
What is to provide a stable water supply?
400
The human response to the flooding.
What is building a levee?
500
The place in Mesopotamia best suited for farming.
What is the river plain/fertile crescent?
500
The two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
500
When you are able to become an expert in one thing
What is Specialization?
500
These surrounded the city-states.
What is farmland/fields?
500
The natural occurrence this responds to.
What is rising water/flooding?