MESOPOTAMIA'S GEOGRAPHY

Red words go in ‘Geography’

Blue words go in ‘Vocabulary’

Mesopotamia means??

Mesopotamia means- ‘land between the rivers’

What rivers??

Mesopotamia means- ‘land between the rivers’

What rivers- Tigris and Euphrates It is in modern day Iraq Aka: the Fertile Crescent

WHY SETTLE THERE?

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

MAP ASSIGNMENT (PAGES 96 AND 85)

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