Lesson 4 Review: The Rise of Sumerian City-States

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The name of Mesopotamia comes from its location, which was

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Between 2 rivers

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The rivers in Mesopotamia are

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The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

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Why were Sumerian communities called city-states?

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Each of them had its own ruler and farmland

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What development caused food shortages in the Zagros foothills?

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Increase in population

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

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Moved south to the flat plains

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Which describes the water supply for early Sumerian farmers?

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Uncontrolled water supply caused too much or too little water at times.

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Why did early Sumerians have to work together?

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In order to maintain irrigation systems.

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The people of Sumer constructed walls and moats to

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protect cities from attack

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What system was created by Sumerian farmers to water their crops in the fields?

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Irrigation system

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Irrigation systems include which of the following: dams, levees, canals, all of the answer choices are correct?

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all of the answer choices are correct