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What are fine particles of rock?
Silt
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What did the Mesopotamians do solve solve the food shortage in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains?
They moved South to the plains area, called Sumer
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What 4 things did the Sumerians create to control the water supply?
LEVEES, CANALS, DAMS, RESERVOIRS
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What are the names of the 2 rivers that border Mesopotamia?
Euphrates and Tigris Rivers
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What kind of word is "Mesopotamia"?
Greek
200
What is a means of supplying land with water?
Irrigation
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What did the Sumerians do to control the water supply?
Created irrigation systems
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When did the rivers flood in Sumer?
In Spring.
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What was the name of the mountain range where people lived in the foothills of in Northern Mesopotamia?
Zagros Mountains
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Sumerian city-states are part of what "Age"
Neolithic
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What is a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks?
LEVEE
300
How did the Sumerians maintain the irrigation system that passed through villages?
They worked together.
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What clogged their irrigation canals?
SILT
300
What body of water do the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow into?
The Persian Gulf
300
What are stones used for?
Toolmaking or tools
400
What is an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government?
CITY STATES
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What did Sumerians do to protect themselves from neighboring communities?
They built walls and moats.
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What did they build their walls with?
MUD BRICKS
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Name 3 city-states
3 out of: Kish, Nippur, Uruk, Larsa, Ur, Umma, Lagash
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Why did the rivers flood in the Spring?
The snow melted in the mountains
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What is a pool of water that is collected for later use?
RESERVOIR
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Because of all the challenges and solutions, what did the Sumerian farming villages become?
CITY-STATES
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Was the land in Sumer hilly or flat?
FLAT
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Describe the soil in Sumer. (when it isn't Spring)
hard and dry
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Why were some people outside their city's wall?
They were farming