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Do you have school on Monday?
No
How many 6th grade Core teachers are there?
6
What is the name of the OIS mascot?
Buddy
What day does the 1st quarter end?
October 7th
How did Sumerians protect themselves from neighboring attacks?
Built walls around their city and dug moats outside the city walls
An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government is called a __________
City-state
As Sumerian cities grew, what did they start to fight over?
Water!
As the Sumerians worked together to maintain the irrigation system, villages grew into _______
towns
Why did villages have to to work together to maintain the irrigation systems?
Because their water all came from the same river, so they needed to cooperate so they could all have water
Fine particles of rock is called __________
Silt
Why did the irrigation system did constant repair?
Silt would build up and clog the irrigation system
Name one way that Sumerians learned to control water.
Dug canals, built levees, constructed dams, collected water in pools
Why did farmers in Sumer struggle to raise crops throughout the year?
The rivers flooded unpredictably & other times it was too hot & dry for anything to grow
A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks is called a _________
Levee
A means of supplying land with water is called ________
Irrigation
Why were the river plains a good place for the people to move to?
The rivers would flood = food can grow = life
Due to a lack of food, people moved out of the foothills and onto the plains, to a place called _________.
Sumer
The Tigris and __________ rivers surrounded the area that is known as Mesopotamia.
Euphrates
"The land between two rivers" AKA _________
Mesopotamia
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