The name Mesopotamia comes from its location which was
What is land between two rivers?
100
The people faced many challenges, how many challenges did they encounter
What is 4
100
Food shortages
What is move to the plains?
100
Sumerian communities were called city-states because
What is each of them had their own ruler and farmland?
200
An earthen wall created to keep rivers from overflowing their banks.
What is a levee?
200
Two rivers parallel the region of Mesopotamia, they are
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
200
One of the issues was food shortages in the foothills. What development caused the shortages?
What is an increase in population?
200
Uncontrolled water supply
What is create irrigation systems?
200
Storing water for later use was the purpose of
What is dams and reservoirs?
300
Fine particles of rock
What is silt?
300
If you were in ancient Sumer, you might see a levee beside a river. Why was the levee built there?
What is to irrigate crops?
300
A second issue that the people faced was an uncontrolled water supply. What caused this?
What is floods in the spring and draughts for the rest of the year?
300
Building and maintaining complex irrigation systems
What is work together for the common good?
300
Mesopotamia no longer exists. It is now the country of
What is Iraq?
400
A strong disagreement
What is a dispute?
400
The environment in Sumer was
What is low and flat with little rain?
400
Eventually, the people created complex irrigation systems. However, this lead to a third problem; maintaining the irrigation systems. Something was clogging the canals.
What is silt?
400
Attacks by neighboring communities
What is build strong city walls and moats?
400
One factor that made farming difficult in the area of Sumer was
What is lack of rainfall?
500
A large city that has its own ruler, government, and laws
What is a city-state?
500
Which fact allowed Neolithic people to farm in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains
What is the region had plenty of rain?
500
The environment in Sumer had no natural barriers. This was a problem because
What is attacks from neighboring communities?
500
Using natural resources found in the environment, Sumerians built strong walls with