Mesopotamia Flashcards
is the Tigris river da bottom one??????
NO U FAILURE!!!!!!!!
Which river is da top one??????
Da Tigris stoopid
Is the Euphrates river da top one????
NO U ARE WRONG
Where is Mesopotamia??????
In between da rivers! Mesopotamia means “in between da rivers” stoopid
What is da geography and climate of the northern portion of Mesopotamia????????
It was hilly and received rain, duh u stoopid
What is da geography and climate of SOUTHERN Mesopotamia?????
It had low plains and received little rain with few trees and stones were scarce and there were few natural barriers to keep it enemies and the soil was dry and hard or it was flooding stoopid
WHAT IS PROBLEM 1and its solution??????????
Problem: Food shortages in the Zaragos mountains
Solution: They moved to the plains of Mesopotamia
#if u got this wrong u get an F
What are the four environmental factors
THEY ARE Minerals, Water, Topography, and Vegetation YOU FAILURE
What is problem twoooooOoOOOooOoOOOOo(2)???????
Problem: The rivers flooded uncontrollably, destroying crops.
Solution: They built levees, dams, and irrigation systems to help control the water and stop it from flooding.
#UR A FAILURE
What is problem three??
Problem:There was silt in the rivers
Solution: The villages worked together to make sure the systemsclean were clean. The villages started to depend on each other for clean irrigation systems.
#U WERE A MISTAKE
WHAT WAS PROBLEM 4???????????????
PROBLEM: You are the first problem. Some villages upstream would build new canals affecting the villages downstream. This caused disputes so serious that it led to bloodshed
Solution: The cities built strong walls constructed out of mud bricks. The cities also dug moats outside city walls to protect them and became city-states.
PUT IT ALL TOGETHER
WHY DID. THEY BECOME CIYT-STATES
Mesopotamia formed city-states because of food shortages and the food shortages caused the people to move to the plains near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. In the plains, the rivers flooded uncontrollably in the spring and were bone dry the rest of the year. Because of this flooding, the farmers created irrigation systems, levees along the sides of the rivers to prevent flooding, canals, and dams. Maintaining these irrigation systems posed another problem. Silt clogged up the irrigation systems which made the villages work together to clear up the systems. Since there was not a ton of water disputes over water became so serious that it led to wars and bloodshed. Because of this the villages turned into city-states.
YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS!!!!!!!
WHAT DOES SILT MEAN?
FINE PARTICLES OF ROCK
WHAT ARE THE DEFINITIONS FOR, MESOPOTAMIA, SUMER, IRRIGATION, AND levees?
Mesopotamia: In between the rivers
Sumer: An area in Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared
Irrigation: a means of supplying land with water
Levee: a wall of earth built to prevent a river flooding its banks.
WHAT DOES A CITY-STATE mean?
AN early city that was like a small, independent
country with its own laws and government
