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What are the names of the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
Mesopotamia is part of the larger _____ _______, a strip of good farmland.
Fertile Crescent
The civilization of Mesopotamia, the earliest known one, developed in what is now southern _________.
Iraq
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
The method of watering crops that the Mesopotamians invented is called _________system.
irrigation
Irrigation let these early farmers grow ________-or an extra amount of food.
surplus
Sumer is located in Northern/ Southern Mesopotamia.
Southern
Name 2 Sumerian cities.
Ur, Uruk, Eridu
What is a city state?
A city that is independent, and makes decisions for itself. Something like a mini-country.
Historians think that each city-state was protected by a large city ____.
wall
What material did the Sumerians use to build their houses?
mud and reeds
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.
When cities/ countries help each other because the share common interests, the form an a _ _ _ _ _ _ e.
alliance
The people living in the region of Sumer were called________.
Sumerians
