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Mesopotamia
Rise of the Sumerian City States
Vocabulary
Mesopotamia
ò  Greek word that means “between two rivers”
ò  The two rivers are the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers
ò  Mesopotamia is located in modern-day Iraq
Sumer
ò  Southern region of Mesopotamia, where the first cities
appeared
City-States
ò  Cities that were like small, independent countries
ò  Each city-state had own ruler and farmland to provide
food
Think-Pair-Share
ò  Why is it important for each city-state to have access to
it’s own farmland?
Irrigation Systems
ò  A means of supplying land with water
ò  Think-Pair-Share : Why do people build irrigation systems? What
topographical or climate features influence people to build irrigation
systems?
Sumerians
ò  People who settled what became known as Sumer
ò  These people moved from the foothills and settled in the
plains
Levee
ò  A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its
banks