1. 1.You need these items out: a.Text book b.Notebook & ISN workbook 2.In your notebook, write the date and the title: “Ch. 4 Key Terms”. 3.Copy HW.

2. Mesopotamia Tigris River Euphrates River irrigation Sumer levee silt city-state

3. The people of ancient Mesopotamia faced challenges in their lives, too. Many of their challenges were because of the geography of where they lived. We will look at four of these geographic challenges, and discover how the solutions transformed Neolithic farming villages into complex Sumerian city-states.