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Mesopotamia September 16, 2011 Fertile Crescent Map What do you think the Fertile Crescent is? Give the relative location of the Fertile Crescent? Why do you think the Fertile Crescent was located where it was? What two rivers were located at the center of the Fertile Crescent? Where did they flow into? Fertile Crescent Stretches from the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf Includes the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers What do you think? • Mesopotamia is known as the “cradle of civilization.” What do you think this means? Mesopotamia Earliest known civilization Mesopotamia means “the land between the rivers.” Tigris River and Euphrates River Mesopotamia Early farming villages from the Neolithic Age developed into civilizations. What do you think they had to have to be a civilization? These civilizations had cities, organized governments, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system. Farming in Mesopotamia Good farming conditions made it easy to feed a large number of people. Trade provided a way for goods and ideas to move from place to place. What about organization? Government in Mesopotamia People formed governments to make plans and decisions for the communities. Dealt with food supply and building projects Made laws to keep order and assembled armies to fend off enemies