Food shortages
Mesapatmians went from hunting and gathering to
They figured out how to farm.
The water supply was never controllable so it was
unreliable
There whole system would fail
No, they were constonaly battaling over water.
The tigris and euphraties river
What is the river mesapatamia is by?
With the population growing rapidaly what problem did it cause?
They would face food shortages.
What was the best soulution for farming?
What was the main reason the mesapatamins cleaned the canals?
They cleaned the canals for the common good.
They built walls for what reason?
They provided some protection
Mesapatamina is located in the modern day country of
What is Iraq?
Why did they move out of the foothills for what reason?
They needed food.
They used levves and other things for which reason?
They wanted to maintain there water supply in the best way they could
Why did they allow more people to move into there citys?
They thought that this would create a more diversion enviroment
Why were the walls so important to the sumerians?
They were made from local mud and provided some protection.
The Zagros mountains
What were the mountains that mesapatamia was located by?
What made it hard planting crops in sumer?
There was little to no rain and the sun was hot.
What was the major flaw in the systems that went threw many different city states?
The citys that were upriver had the ability to block the water from other city states
If your a famer and you didnt want to clean out your canl then what woudl happen?
The whole system would rail and might ruin everyones crops.
Why did the sumerians get attacted by othe city states?
Some city states had more recources then others. They might also have more water.
Where did the mesapatamins and sumerians live?
City-States
Did the foothills supply more recources or did the plains?
The foothills. They supplied wood for toolmaking.
Water is stored in a resovoir so money is stored in a what
Bank
People Stayed in one place for what reason
They were provided shelter and food
There was another solution the sumerians used to protect themeselves. What was it?
They would dig mud moats
Mesapatamia is also known as what?
The fertile cresent