Lesson 4 Rise Of The Sumerian Cities Vocab/ Study Guides. Flashcards

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City-state

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

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Complex

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Arranged in a difficult way

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Constructed

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To build; usually kind of structure, such as a house

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Dispute

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A strong disagreement

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Euphrates River

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

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Irrigation

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A means of supplying land with water

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Layer

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A substance that lies between or above other things

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Levee

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

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Maintaining

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to keep something in good condition by making necessary repairs

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Material

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A resource that can be used to make something else

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Mesopotamia

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

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Silt

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Fine particles of rock

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Sumer

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An area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared

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Tigris River

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One of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flows from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf

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The environment of Sumer was

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Difficult

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The name of Mesopotamia comes from its location, which was between two

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Rivers

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What development caused food shortages in the Zagros foothills?

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increase of populations

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

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They moved south to the plains

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Name the two factors that made farming difficult in the area of Sumer.

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Lack of or too much rainfall

20
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Why did the rivers flood in the spring?

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Snow melted in the mountains where the rivers began

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What was the chief purpose of dams and reservoirs?

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To store water for later use

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If you were in ancient Sumer, you might see a levee beside a river. Why was the levee built

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• To prevent flooding

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Why was silt a problem for the people of Sumer?

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• Clogged the irrigation .

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Why did the villages of Sumer depend on each other?

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Cooperate to keep the water system running

25
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Using natural resources found in the environment, Sumerians built strong walls with __

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Mud bricks

26
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The people of Sumer constructed moats to ______.

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To prevent cities from attacks attacks