TCI - Lesson 4 - Ancient Sumer and Mesopotmia

Land between two rivers

• Tigris River

• Euphrates River

• Mesopotamia

• Sumer

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

• Tigris River

• Euphrates River

• Platte River

• Nile River

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

• Tigris River

• Euphrates River

• Platte River

• Nile River

an area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared

• Tigris River

• Euphrates River

• Mesopotamia

• Sumer

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

• Berlin Wall

• The Great Wall

• Levee

• City-State

fine particles of rock

• silt

• diamond

• crystals

• gems

a means of supplying land with water

• well

• irrigation

• dam

• silt

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

• city-state

• Omaha

• New York

• Boston

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

• Joining the other communities to create one large community

• Attacking them back

• Building walls around their cities

• Creating allies with other neighboring communities to go against those that were attacking

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

• Maintaining only the canals around their village’s fields

• Forcing members of another villages to maintain the entire irrigation system

• Cooperating with other villages to regularly maintain the entire irrigation system

• Abandoning irrigation and return to collecting and carrying water from the river to the fields