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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
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