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Red words go in
‘Geography’
Blue words go in
‘Vocabulary’
MESOPOTAMIA'S GEOGRAPHY
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Mesopotamia means??
Mesopotamia means- ‘land between the rivers’
 What rivers??
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Mesopotamia means- ‘land between the rivers’
 What rivers- Tigris and Euphrates
 It is in modern day Iraq
 Aka: the Fertile Crescent
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WHY SETTLE THERE?
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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
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MAP ASSIGNMENT (PAGES 96 AND 85)
Label and color the map
 Include: Key with symbols (river, boundary, city, gold, etc)
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 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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