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