Question 1

Uncontrolled water supply

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What is one factor that made farming difficult in the area of Sumer?

Question 2

They decided to move to the plains.

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What solution did people in the Zagros foothills find to fix the problem of food shortages?

Question 3

Increasing population

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What caused food shortages in Zagros foothills?

Question 4

The land was hard and dry and they were plains.

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How the environment of Sumer?

Question 5

Because they were cities and they acted like states.

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Why were Sumerian communites called city- states?

Question 6

Land between the rivers ''

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Mesopotamia is a Greek word that means the ''

Question 7

The Zagros foothills was near water.

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What made the Neolithic people to farm in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains?

Question 8

Protect themselves

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Why did people of Sumer constructed moats to?

Question 9

Mud Bricks

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What did Sumerians build strong walls with?

Question 10

They needed to work together to clean the canals.

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Why did the villages of Sumer depend on each other?

Question 11

The land was dry for most of the year.

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Why did the rivers flood in the Spring?

Question 12

To prevent flooding

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Why was the Levee built?

Question 13

To stop the flood of water so they can overflow to the crops.

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What was the main purpose of dams and reservoirs?

Question 14

Silt blocked the canals

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Why was silt a problem for the people of Sumer?

Question 15

It is located between two rivers.

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What do you know about Mesopotamia?.

Question 16

They protected themselves from others.

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Early Sumerian cities were walled settlements surrounded by farmland. The strong city walls were built of sunbaked bricks. Moats, or ditches filled with water, surrounded the walls. What does this arrangement tell you about the Sumerians?

Question 17

The population increased, and there wasn't enough food.

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What change caused by farming in northern Mesopotamia, led people to move south?

Question 18

Control the amount of water in the valley.

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Sumerians used levees,canals, and dams to

Question 19

People in the villages had to work together to take care of the system.

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What happened when people from many villages used Sumerian irrigation systems?

Question 20

Each settlement had it's own ruler and farmland.

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Why were Sumerian settlements called city-states?

Question 21

They had to work together to maintain the irrigation system.

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Why didn't Sumerians continue living in small villages, as their ancestors had?

Question 22

Sumer lacked natural barriers to keep out enemes.

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What made it harder to live in Sumer than in the Zagros foothills?

Question 23

an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government

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city-state

Question 24

one of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf

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Euphrates River

Question 25

a means of supplying land with water

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irrigation

Question 26

a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks

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levee

Question 27

in ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

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Mesopotamia

Question 28

fine particles of rock

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silt

Question 29

an area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared

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Sumer

Question 30

one of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf

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Tigris River

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