TCI - Lesson 4 - Ancient Sumer and Mesopotmia

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Land between two rivers

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Mesopotamia

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The largest south river in Southwest Asia flowing from mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf

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Euphrates River

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The largest north river in Southwest Asia flowing from mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf

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Tigris River

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an area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared

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Sumer

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

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Levee

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fine particles of rock

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silt

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a means of supplying land with water

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irrigation

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

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city-state

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How did Mesopotamians solve the problem of attacks from neighboring communities?

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Building walls around their cities

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How did Mesopotamians solve the problem of building and maintaining complex irrigation systems?

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Cooperating with other villages to regularly maintain the entire irrigation system