Section 1
A Difficult Environment
A Difficult Environment
Was it easy to live in Mesopotamia?
No
People moved from the foothills onto where?
The Plains
What is one of the biggest problems?
Uncontrolled water supply
What Were Canals clogged with?
Silt
What did people build to protect their cities?
Walls
The Sun beat down fiercely on the plains between which two Rivers?
Tigris River and Euphrates River
The nearby wooded hill provided?
timber building shelters, and plenty of stones for toolmaking
What are some ways people control the water supply?
Levees, Canals, Dams
What does Irrigation provide?
enough water for the farmers
What did people make the walls out of?
Mud Bricks
Where is Mesopotamia located in?
Iraq
Mild weather and plentiful of rain made?
the foothill a good place to farm.
What did the sumers to do the soil?
sunbaked and harden the soil
Does the irrigation system need to be done to it make sure it works?
it needs constant care and repair.
What did people dig outside of their city walls?
Moats
What were two things that made it hard to live in Mesopotamia?
The sun was very hot so it made it dry and there was not enough water.
area is to grow?
Crops
Why where farms having a hard time growing crops?
either too much water or too little water.
What is an irrigation system?
Provides water to other towns and villages.
they right to use more water?
The northern of Mesopotamia was?
hill and partly rainy
The region became know as?
Summer
How did Sumers have other ways to control the supply of water?
They dug canals to shape the water follow.
they can get disrupt the whole system.
Why did the Sumerians dug moats outside city walls
the keep the enemies out.