Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 6, Lesson 1, The Land Between Two Rivers (pp. 150-155)
I. The Mesopotamian Plain
B. The Sumerians created irrigation systems to water fields and control floods.
II. The Remarkable Sumerians
B. These independent city-states were made up of a city and its
surrounding villages and farmland.
C. In the early city-state, religion and government were combined.
D. The Sumerians made important advances in government, technology, and communication.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. The world's first cities arose in Sumer, a region in Mesopotamia.
A. By 3000 B.C., there were 12 great Sumerian cities with thousands of people.
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