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Chapter 4 Study Guide. Complete in the style of Cornell Notes
1.
Based on its name, what do you know about Mesopotamia?
2.
What change, caused by farming in northern Mesopotamia, led people to move south?
3.
Sumerians used levees, canals, and dams to
4.
What happened when people from many villages used Sumerian irrigation systems?
5.
Why were Sumerian settlements called city-states?
6.
Why didn't Sumerians continue living in small villages, as their ancestors had?
7.
Why were food shortages occurring by 5000 B.C.E. in the Zagros foothills?
8.
What was the biggest problem Sumerian farmers faced?
9.
To develop and maintain irrigation systems, Sumerians had to
10. What do historians call Sumer's walled settlements?
Chapter 4 Study Guide. Complete in the style of Cornell Notes
2.
Based on its name, what do you know about Mesopotamia?
3.
What change, caused by farming in northern Mesopotamia, led people to move south?
4.
Sumerians used levees, canals, and dams to
5.
What happened when people from many villages used Sumerian irrigation systems?
6.
Why were Sumerian settlements called city-states?
7.
Why didn't Sumerians continue living in small villages, as their ancestors had?
8.
Why were food shortages occurring by 5000 B.C.E. in the Zagros foothills?
9.
What was the biggest problem Sumerian farmers faced?
10. To develop and maintain irrigation systems, Sumerians had to
11. What do historians call Sumer's walled settlements?