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Geography of Sumer
Mics.
100
This is a means of supplying land with water.
What is irrigation?
100

Farmers ran out of this resource in the foothills, which led to food shortages.

What is land?

100

The farmers in the foothills moved here after food shortages.

What are the river plains?

100

This river is the North-most river in the Mesopotamia region.

What is the Tigris River?

100

DOUBLE! This area had plentiful rain, good building materials, and decent soil.

The foothills of the Zagros Mountains

200
This is a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks.
What is a levee?
200
In the spring, the rain and the melted snow caused this.
What is flooding of the rivers?
200

DOUBLE! Farmers built these to hold water in reserve for droughts.

What are reservoirs?

200
This river is the South most river in the Mesopotamia region.
What is the Euphrates River?
200

This area had few natural resources for building.

The plains 

300

DOUBLE! This is fine particles of rock that clogged canals.

What is silt.

300

DOUBLE! Drastic weather changes caused too little or too much of this resource in the Sumerian region.

What is water?

300

Villages in Sumer began to do this to maintain their complex irrigation system.

What is work together with other communities?

300

Sumer rests between the rivers and foothills of these mountains.

What is the Zagros Mountains.

300

This is the reason the people ran out of land in the foothills.

Increased population

400

An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own farmland and ruler.

What is a city-state?

400
These parts of the irrigation system would often become clogged, disrupting the whole system.
What is a canal?
400
To help maintain their complex irrigation system, Sumerians began living in these.
What are large communities?
400

DOUBLE! The western coast of Mesopotamia rests up against this sea.

What is the Mediterranean Sea.

400

This area was flat and had little rain.

What are the plains

500

An area in southern Mesopotamia where villages combined to build a city-state

What is Sumer?

500
Struggles to control water often lead neighbors to this.
What is bloodshed, disputes, battles, etc.
500

Sumerians built these two things outside their cities to protect themselves.

What are moats and mud-brick walls?

500
Most of Mesopotamia lacked these two natural landforms to protect themselves.
What are mountains and rivers.
500

The Tigris & Euphrates rivers flow in which direction toward which body of water?

Southeast toward the Persian Gulf