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CHAPTER 2
LESSON 3The First Communities
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Geography Fractice
Early Farming Gommunities
Although the
The Fertile crescent extends through parts of southwest Asia.
is an arc of land that
surrounding region is mainly desert, the Fertile Crescent
provides some of the best farming in the area'
known
It includes the lands facing the Meditefranean sea and a plain that became
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Mesopotamia
Mesopo tamia,"the land bJween the rivers." The rivers framing
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the Tigris and EuPhrates'
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As early as 1 1,000 n.c., people began settling in this region
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Use the map to do these activities and answer these questions.
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1. Which agricultural settlement was located farthest south in the western part of the
Fertile Crescent?
2. Which
settlement on the map is located the farthest north?
3. What four major
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bodies of water surround this region?
Color. in the Fertile Crescent.
, 5. V/hat was the approximate
distance from Catal Huyuk to Eridu?
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6. With apartne4 research
one of the early sites other than Catal Huyuk shown on the map,
What features of the specific location made it a gobd spot for an agricultural settlement?
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