Unit 3 Review 7 Jeopardy Template

General Knowledge/Mesopotamia	Food Shortages in the Hills	Uncontrolled Water Supply in the River Valley	Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System	Attacks by Neighboring Communities
100 When do the earliest cities date back to? 3500 BCE	100 What caused the food shortage? increase in population	100 What was the problem? too much or too little water	100 What was the problem? it was difficult to maintain the irrigation system	100 What was the problem? cities began fighting over water
200 What does Mesopotamia mean? land between two rivers	200 How did they solve the food shortage problem? They moved south to the plains.	200 What was the solution? To build an irrigation system	200 What was the solution? farmers needed to work together	200 What was the solution? They built strong walls to protect the cities
300 What does complex mean? arranged in a difficult way	300 What resources did the foothills provide? Wood and stone	300 What are parts of an irrigation system? levees, dams, reservoirs, and canals	300 What is silt? fine particles of rock	300 What did they construct the walls out of? mud bricks
400 What are the two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia? The Tigris and the Euphrates River	400 When did the problem begin to occur? 5000 BCE	400 When the land was dry what would farmers do to the levees. Farmers would poke holes in the levees.	400 What happened as a result of farmers working together? Villages grew into towns/cities.	400 What are city-states a city that is like an independent country
500 Where did farming begin? On the Zagros Mountains	500 What region became known as Sumer? The plains.	500 What was the purpose of the levees? to prevent flooding.	500 What did they have to do? scoop water from one reservoir to another and clear clogged canals	500 who was not protected by the walls the farmers

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