What wild grain did they discover they could plant and harvest?
Wheat
100
What are "Leeves"?
Big piles of earth between the fields and the river, so tall that the river could not overflow.
200
What are two important rivers in Mesopotamia?
Tigirs
Euphrates
200
What did they gather for food?
Wild berries, grains and nuts.
200
What animals did they learn to domesticate and raise for food?
Wild goats an sheep
200
How did the invention of the Calendar help farmers?
Predicted floods
300
What kind of soil did the Tigris and Euphrates rivers bring?
Silt
300
Where did they live before farming?
They traveled, following the herd, they did not have a set home or location.
300
Name 4 crops that they grew.
barley, wheat, beans, vegetables, dates, apples figs, grapes.
300
How did the development of writing help farmers?
Help them with trade.
400
What is silt?
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
400
Name some of the biggest problems they faced before farming.
Answers will vary
400
What were 2 problems these early farmers faced?
Unpredictable floods and dry summers
400
Describe irrigation. (Think of canals and gated ditches etc)
Irrigation was the system they came up with to help store water for the dry summer, they dug out large storage basins to hold water supply, they dug canals to connect the basins to their crop and gated ditches to control when water was let in.
500
The most fertile land in Mesopotamia is known as the ....
Fertile Crescent
500
What is another word for communities, who travel in search of resources and they do not live in a set location?
Nomads
500
Why was this land so fertile, why was it perfect for farming?
Snow from the mountains, melts and the river overflows leaving behind silt - very rich soil, perfect for farming-