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Flashcards by bisi akindele, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by bisi akindele
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| irrigation | a means of supplying land with water |
| layer | A substance that lies between or above other things |
| Levee | a wall of earth built to prevent a river |
| Maintaining | Flip card maintainingto keep something in good condition by making necessary repairs |
| material | Mesopotamia |
| silt | fine particles of rock |
| Sumer | an area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared |
| Tigris River | one of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf |
| Euphrates River | one of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf |
| city-state | An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government |
| Mesopotamia | The geographic area located between the Tigris and the Euphrates River |
| Difficulties living in mesopotamia | 1.There was little rain. The Mesopotamians were farmers and their farms needed water 2.Little on lack of resources |
| Four major problems | 1.Food shortages in the hill 2.Uncontrolled water Supply 3.Difficulties in building & maintaining water systems 4.Attacks by neighboring communities |
| Problems in the Zagros Foothills:Before Problems | 1.Peope in some areas of the world began farming 2.One area with good conditions for growing crops was the rolling foothills of the zagros mountains in northern Mesopotamia 3.Mild weather and plentiful rains made the foot hills a good place to farm |
| Zagros foothills:Problems | 1.Some historians believe that by 5000 B.C.E,farmers in the Zagros Foothills did not have enough land to grow food for the increasing population 2. Villages began to suffer from food shotages 3. Below the foothills and to the south,the Euphrates and tigris rivers ran through flat plains |
| Solutions to food shortages | 1.In the spring both of the rivers flooded bringing precious water to the land 2.Farms could be succesful being near both of the rivers 3.Driven by need to grow food,people moved out of the foothills and on to the plains |
| The region became known as_______ | Sumer |
| The sumerians defended them selves by.... | building walls and moats around their cities |
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