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Modifying the Land: Canals, Dikes, and Irrigation Systems
Explain how Mesopotamians engineered irrigation systems and reservoirs to control river floods and farm dry soil.
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Ancient Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent
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Examine how Tigris and Euphrates river systems fostered early Sumerian city-states, cuneiform writing, empire building, and formal law codes.
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Learning standards covered
6.G2.1Arizona Social Studies Standards · All agesCompare diverse ways people or groups of people have impacted, modified, or adapted to the environment of the Eastern Hemisphere. Key concepts include but are not limited to hunter-gatherer communities, human settlement, Neolithic Revolution, irrigation and farming, domestication of animals, and influence of climate and seasons
6.C4.1Arizona Social Studies Standards · All agesExplain challenges and opportunities people and groups face when solving local, regional, and/or global problems.