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14 Cards in this Set
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Mesopotamia |
In ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
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Tigris River |
One of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf |
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Euphrates River |
One of the two largest rivers in southwest Asia that flow from mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf |
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Sumer |
An area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appered |
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Irrigation |
A means of of supplying land with water |
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Levee |
A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding it's banks |
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Silt |
Fine particles of rock |
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City-State |
An early city that was like a small, independent country with it's own laws and goverment |
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Mesopotamia |
Land between the rivers |
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Sumer |
Environment was low and flat with little rain |
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Floods |
Came from snow melted in the mountains where the rivers began |
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Moats |
Sumer constructed these to protect cities from attack |
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Reservoir |
Purpose was to store water for later use |
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Zagros |
Mountains that lie between the waters of the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf |
