1. Red words go in ‘Geography’ Blue words go in ‘Vocabulary’

2.  Mesopotamia means??

3.  Mesopotamia means- ‘land between the rivers’  What rivers??

4.  Mesopotamia means- ‘land between the rivers’  What rivers- Tigris and Euphrates  It is in modern day Iraq  Aka: the Fertile Crescent

6.  Why there- drinking, cooking, bathing, fishing, planting, and fertile soil  Northern Mesopotamia- plateau (high, flat land)  Southern Mesopotamia- alluvial plain (plain made by rivers flooding and leaving behind silt)  Silt?@!? It is: fertile fine soil

7.  Label and color the map  Include: Key with symbols (river, boundary, city, gold, etc)  Tigris River, Euphrates River  Zagros Mtns, Taurus Mtns, Syrian Desert  Sumer  Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf  Cities: Eridu, Uruk, Ur, Kish  Resources: Gold, Copper