Irrigation let these early farmers grow ________-or an extra amount of food.
surplus
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What is a city state?
A city that is independent, and makes decisions for itself. Something like a mini-country.
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The people living in the region of Sumer were called________.
Sumerians
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Mesopotamia is part of the larger _____ _______, a strip of good farmland.
Fertile Crescent
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The civilization of Mesopotamia, the earliest known one, developed in what is now southern _________.
Iraq
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Flooded rivers were filled with _______, or small particles of soil. When the floods ended, ____ was left on the banks and plains making the land fertile.
silt
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seesaw
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magnet
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shark
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thief
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What were some of the reasons that the Sumerian city-states were going to war against each other?
Often, these city-states went to war with one another over resources and political borders. Sometimes, they fought to win glory or to gain more territory.
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banana
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seesaw
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rocket
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thief
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When cities/ countries help each other because the share common interests, the form an a _ _ _ _ _ _ e.
alliance
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What material did the Sumerians use to build their houses?
mud and reeds
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baam
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seesaw
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fairy
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banana
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Historians think that each city-state was protected by a large city ____.
wall
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The method of watering crops that the Mesopotamians invented is called _________system.
