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

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

3. Geography of Mesopotamia

5. 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”

6. 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

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

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

9. Add Zagros Mountains To Warm-Up Map

10. 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

12. Annual Rainfall in Mesopotamia

13. Vegetation

14. Wild Grain in Mesopotamia