Vocabulary
An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government
What is a city-state?
Fine particles of rock that helped early farmers grow crops
What is silt?
Increase in population
What caused food shortages in the Zagros foothills?
All solutions led to
What is the rise of city-states in Mesopotamia?
A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks
What is a levee?
These mountains had a good climate and plentiful rain that made it good place for settlement
What are the Zagros mountains?
Snow and ice melting in the mountains where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers began
What caused flooding in the plains?
Solution to the Tigris and Euphrates flooding
What is build irrigation systems?
What is Mesopotamia?
Lack of these features left Sumer unprotected.
What are mountains and rivers?
Silt and complex irrigation systems
What caused irrigation canals to clog?
Solution to silt clogging irrigation systems
What is work together to maintain the irrigation canals?
A means for supplying an area with water
What is irrigation?
One of the two largest rivers LOCATED CLOSEST to the MEDITERRANEAN SEA in Southwest Asia that flows from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf
What is the Euphrates River?
Sumerian cities grew in size
What caused fighting over the use of water?
Solution to neighboring communities attacking cities
What is build walls and dig moats around cities?
An area in Southern Mesopotamia where the first cities were located.
What is Sumer?
one of the two largest rivers LOCATED CLOSEST TO THE BLACK SEA in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf
What is the Tigris River?
No natural barriers in Sumer
What caused Sumer to be unprotected?
Solution to food shortage in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains
What is moved to the plains?