{"id":435,"date":"2019-10-30T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/?p=435"},"modified":"2019-10-30T16:23:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:23:56","slug":"chapter-4-section-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/2019\/10\/30\/chapter-4-section-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 4 Section Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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4.2. Mesopotamia: A Difficult Environment<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  1. List three reasons why it wasn’t easy to live in the part of the Fertile Crescent called Mesopotamia.<\/li>
  2. What were the four major problems Mesopotamians faced as they tried to survive in this environment? <\/li>
  3. What were two Neolithic farming communities found in the Mesopotamian region? <\/li>
  4. How many city-states were found in the area known as Sumer?<\/li>
  5. List those city-states. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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    4.3. Food Shortages in the Hills<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    1. In the rolling foothills of what mountain range did Neolithic people start farming?<\/li>
    2. List three reasons why these foothills were a good place to build a Neolithic community?<\/li>
    3. What problems began to arise around 5,000 B.C.E.?<\/li>
    4. Why did the plains around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers hold promise as farming land? <\/li>
    5. What was the main reason people moved out of the foothills and onto the plains? <\/li>
    6. What was the name of this region? <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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      4.4 Uncontrolled Water Supply in the River Valley<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
      1. What was the biggest problem farmers that moved to Sumer faced? <\/li>
      2. What happened in the plains of Sumer every spring?<\/li>
      3. What was Sumer like the rest of the year?<\/li>
      4. How did the Sumerian farmers solve their problem of an uncontrolled water supply?<\/li>
      5. How do levees work? <\/li>
      6. What other ways did Sumerians control the water supply? <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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        4.5. Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
        1. What problem arose as the Sumerians built irrigation systems? <\/li>
        2. What became a constant problem with the canals?<\/li>
        3. Why was this issue with canals  a problem?<\/li>
        4. What were farmers eventually forced to do?<\/li>
        5. What happened in the villages between 3,500 B.C.E. and 3,000 B.C.E.?<\/li>
        6. About how many people lived in these cities? <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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          4.6. Attacks by Neighboring Communities<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
          1. What was the major reason the Sumerian cities had conflict with one another?<\/li>
          2. Why were those people living downriver at a disadvantage?<\/li>
          3. How did Sumerians begin to protect their cities?<\/li>
          4. Where did most of the cities citizens live?<\/li>
          5. What happened to the farmers who lived outside the city walls during an attack? <\/li>
          6. What do historians call these walled cities? <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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            4.7. From Small Farming Villages to Large City-States<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
            1. What is the basic challenge that needs to be solved by any group of people? <\/li>
            2. List four specific details that can be seen in the illustration in this section.<\/li>
            3. Looking back at the map in section 4.2, answer the following questions:<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n