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Chapter 2 Test Review Mesopotamia Category: Geography Draw a map of the Fertile Crescent region. Try to include as many details with labels as you can. Category: Geography 1. What two major rivers cause the soil in the fertile crescent to be so fertile? Be able to explain A. Tigris River B. Euphrates River 2. What country is the Nile River in today? A. Egypt 3. Name the country that makes up most of the Fertile Crescent today. B. Iraq (and some of Syria) Category: Geography 4. If I flew southwest of the Zagros Mtns., what desert would I fly over? A. Syrian Desert (or Arabian Desert) 5. If I paddled my kayak down to the end of the Tigris River, what gulf would I paddle into? A. Persian Gulf 6. If I started a trip from Asia Minor, then went southeast to the Syrian Desert, then I traveled east to the Persian Gulf, what two seas would be to my west? A. Red Sea B. Mediterranean Sea Category: Essential Questions How did the geography of Mesopotamia enable a civilization to develop there? A. Tigris & Euphrates Rivers caused floods, bringing fertile soil every year, this led to a food surplus to feed people and to trade B. Physical features protected people from invasions: Taurus Mtns., Zagros Mtns., Syrian Desert C. Mediterranean Sea helped with water trading routes Category: Essential Questions 2. Why do civilizations or empires collapse? **A. Fighting/wars, some empires are taken over by other empires **B. Natural events impacting food sources such as salt intrusion from over irrigating fields, or long droughts C. Natural disasters such as earthquakes or volcanic eruptions Category: Essential Questions 3. What was Mesopotamia’s legacy to the rest of the world? A. Early writing systems such as cuneiform and Phoenician alphabet B. Organized, written laws, Hammurabi’s Code Category: Vocabulary 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Babylon polytheism scribe Fertile Crescent city-state caravan Irrigation Hammurabi bazaar legacy triangulation anarchy monotheism code cuneiform
