1. This is where people lived at first. What’s wrong with this place ?
Mesopotamia
This is where people lived at first. What’s wrong with this place ?

2. Mesopotamia It was not easy to live in Mesopotamia.
North: very hilly and had rain
South: flat lands, very hot sun and little rain.
Mesopotamians were farmers and what do farmers need?

3. How to set up pg. 50 Divide the page into 4 squares
Title it “Mesopotamia’s 4 problems”
Write the word “solution” in each box
You will be given 4 post-its
Write the word “problem” in each one and stick to a box
Pg. 50
Mesopotamia’s 4 Problems
#1: Solution
#2: Solution
Problem:
Problem:
#3: Solution
#4: Solution
Problem:
Problem:

4. Mesopotamia’s 4 Problems
Food shortages in the hills
Uncontrolled water supply on the plains (flooding)
Difficulty in building and maintaining systems that provided water across village boundaries
Attacks by neighboring communities

5. Group Work Directions Read the passage and identify the “problem”
Discuss as a team how you would solve this issue.
You will be given a blank computer sheet.
Divide it into 4 pieces and label each box #1-#4 #1 #2 #3 #4

6. Mesopotamia’s 4 Problems
What is the problem?
State it
How do you propose to solve it?
How is it actually solved?
Read the section assigned to you & summarize it
Illustrate the solution! #1 #2 #3 #4 #4

7. Mesopotamia’s 4 Problems
Food shortages in the hills
Solution: Moved to river valley of Sumer
2). Uncontrolled water supply on the plains (flooding) Too much or too little water
Solution: Built an irrigation system and leevees
3). Irrigation system crossed village boundaries.
Solution: Began to work together and live in cities.
4.). Attacks by neighboring communities
Solution: Built walls and dug moats around city-states.