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All Maps You Create Must Have… • A Title • A Compass Rose • A legend The Only Items on your desk should be • Note taking materials (pencil, paper) • Self createed map of Mesopotamia Geography of Mesopotamia Fertile Crescent • Crescent shaped region containing moist and fertile land • Often called the cradle of civilization – Saw the development of some of the earliest human civilizations Mesopotamia • Land between the rivers – The Tigris and Euphrates rivers often flooded during the spring – The floods left a very fertile mud called silt • Flat swampy region Absolute Location • 33.7 ‘N, 43.5’ E – What makes the location ideal? Northern Mesopotamia • Hills • Plains • Fertile land due to seasonal rains • Streams flow from Zagros Mountains • Many raw materials – Timber – Metals – Stone Add Zagros Mountains To Warm-Up Map Southern Mesopotamia • Marshy areas • Dry plains • Tigris River – Fast flowing • Euphrates River – Easily navigable – Farmers learned to control the flooding – Used to irrigate fields Annual Rainfall in Mesopotamia Vegetation Wild Grain in Mesopotamia