Assignment+2-2

=****Assignment 2-2****=
 * Answer the following questions and define the vocabulary (if any) __clearly__ and with __details__ on your wiki page. Use the links above from the In Class Activity 2-1 called //Event C:// //Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System// & //Event D: Attacks by Neighboring Communities// to help you answer the questions.**

1. What was the first simple method farmers used to get water to their fields from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers? They carried all the water from the river to their crops. 2. How did farmers prevent flooding? Farmers made walls called levees to prevent the flooding. 3. Over time, carrying buckets of water to the fields was too difficult. Please __**clearly**__ explain how levees, canals, dams, and reservoirs were used to make life easier for farmers? It made life easier because n9 farmers did not have to control the water MANUALLY, since they did not have to carry it to their fields. 4. Which word means an extra supply of something such as food? Surplus means the extra supply of food. 5. What could happen if one canal was clogged? One clogged canal would ruin the whole irrigation system. 6. How did different villages take care of the complex irrigation system? Different villages' canals were connected all together.
 * Event C: Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System**

1. How did Mesopotamian villages help each other? They had the same irrigation systems connected to each other. 2. How were people, who lived very far apart, connected to each other? They had their irrigation systems connected. 3. What did many villages grow into? They grew into towns and provinces. 4. What do we call the region in Mesopotamia that had many growing cities and towns? What are the people called that come from this region? The region was called Sumer, and the people were called Sumerians. 5. How could one city stop the water from reaching another city? They could block the canal going to the other city. 6. Why was it easy to attack other cities on the Mesopotamian plains? There were no natural barriers to block attacks. 7. What defense plan is best to protect a city? To build a wall.Type in the content of your page here.
 * Event D: Attacks by Neighboring Communities**