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The Only Items on your desk should be Note taking materials (pencil, paper) Self created map of Mesopotamia Review Edsitement’s lesson on Mesopotamia

All Maps You Create Must Have… A Title A Compass Rose A legend

Geography of Mesopotamia

Fertile Crescent The Fertile Crescent is a region in the Middle East that stretches in a large crescent shape from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea The Fertile Crescent includes Mesopotamia A wide flat plain between to great rivers Mesopotamia means the “land between the rivers”

Mesopotamia Land between the rivers Flat swampy region Settled before 5000 B.C.E. Home to numerous early civilizations The Tigris and Euphrates rivers often flooded during the spring The floods left a very fertile mud called silt Flat swampy region

Absolute Location 33.7 ‘N, 43.5’ E What makes the location ideal?

Northern Mesopotamia Hills Plains Fertile land due to seasonal rains Streams flow from Zagros Mountains Many raw materials Timber Metals Stone

Add Zagros Mountains To Warm-Up Map

Southern Mesopotamia Marshy areas Dry plains Tigris River Fast flowing Euphrates River Easily navigable Farmers learned to control the flooding Used to irrigate fields Good soil due to the two rivers uniting

Annual Rainfall in Mesopotamia

Vegetation

Wild Grain in Mesopotamia