Vocabulary
Food Shortages
Water Supply
Miscellaneous
Review
100
Word meaning: land between two rivers
Mesopotamia
100
This area (mountains) had good conditions for growing crops
Zagros Mountains in Northern Mesopotamia
100
During the spring, what would happen that caused the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to flood
rain from mountains, and melting snow
100
Definition: a means of supplying land with water
irrigation
100
an arc shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil
Fertile Crescent
200
The names of the two rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf
Tigris River and Euphrates River
200
In Neolithic times, what did some area in the world begin to do
Farming
200
What is this a picture of
Dust Storm
200
What was built around the walls of city states to help keep enemies out
Moats
200
during this period of time, people had lived in caves
Paleolithic Age
300
a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks
levee
300
Driven by the need to grow food, people moved out of the foothills and onto the plans. This region became knows as this, and its people, the Sumerians
Sumer
300
Farmers had to constantly struggle to raise crops, why?
Either had too little or too much water
300
What would worked do to ensure that water levels were balanced
work together to clear silt, scoop water from one reservoir to another
300
Definition: to train a wild animal to be useful to humans
domesticate
400
fine particles of rock
silt
400
The plains however did hold promise, as during the spring, what would happen to the rivers to bring precious water to the land.
The rivers flooded
400
What is this?
Hoover Dam
400
What is this
Reservoir
400
one who moved from place to place with no permanent home
nomad
500
an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government
city-state
500
Below the foothills and to the south, the Euphrates and Tigris rivers ran through flat plains. These plains covered a large area of land, but during most of the year this land was
very hard, and dry
500
Over time, the Sumerians learned way to control the supply of water. List 2 of them
Dug canals to shape paths the water took
Constructed dams along the river
The reservoirs stored water for later use
500
Why were settlers forced to move from the foothills down the river valley?
Food Shortages
500
How many teachers are part of the Blue team?
8
(Pickworth, Theodore, Lodi, Anderson, Rossi, Rossi, Waite, Radonich)