Chapter 3 Ancient Mesopotamia

How did the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers support agriculture?

• a period of little rainfall

• The river flooded each year depositing fertile soil on the also provided water for crop

• Mesopotamia

What made Mesopotamia a good region for farming?

• the rivers and the fertile soil

• a period of little rainfall

• ancient people could still grow crops

How did the climate affect farmers?

• A period when not enough rain fall happens

• They used irrigation canals to bring water to crops.

• The yearly flood was unpredictable, making it hard to know when to plant. Sometimes the flood washed everything away. At other times, the flood did not come, and drought occurred.

Having little rain fall and warm temperatures..

• drought

• semiarid

• floodplain

• Mesopotamia

An amount of a good, such as food, in excess of what is needed...

• surplus

• silt

• semiarid

• #6thgradesquadgoals

An ancient region o southern Mesopotamia

• civilization

• Sumer

• city-state

• ziggurat

A belief in many gods or goddesses

• The Beyhive

• Ziggurat

• king

• polytheism

How did civilization develop in the region of Sumer?

• advance form of culture

• clean irrigation canal

• The rise of agriculture enabled people to settle in villages. The Villages grew larger and became cities.

• Mulan became a warrior princess

What new type of community developed in summer?

• city-state, which is a city and its nearby farmland

• center trade

• a tik tok community

• advanced cities

A sharpened reed used to press marking into clay tablets

• cuneiform

• bronze

• pictograph

• stylus