Mezopotámia Flashcards
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Where is Mezopotamia located?
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The Fertile Crescent - Turkey, Syria and Iraq, an Persian Gulf.
- in greek means “land between the rivers.”
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What two rivers framed the Mezopotamia?
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Tigris and Euphrates
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Floods
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- a thick bed of mud called
silt - rich, new soil and irrigated the fields with river water.
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Sumerians
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Advantages of Sumerians
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ADVANTAGE: - good soil
DISANVANTAGE: - three disadvantages to their new environment
- Unpredictable flooding combined with a period of little or no rain. The land sometimes
became almost a desert.
- No natural barriers for protection, a Sumerian village was nearly defenceless.
- The natural resources were limited.
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