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Introduction to Mesopotamia
SS 7
RCA
2006-07
Introduction
• _____________ often _____________ the headlines of our evening news.
• its abundant natural _____________ -- namely, _____________ -- is what
makes this Southwest Asian country so _____________ in the world of
politics.
• But aside from that fact, Iraq is also home to one of the oldest civilizations
on Earth
Map of Ancient Mesopotamia
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Nearly _____________thousand years ago, or around _____________.,
people began to settle in a region sandwiched between the
_____________ and the _____________ rivers.
Later on, when the _____________ visited that area, they called it
"_____________," which literally meant "the land _____________ the
rivers" in their language.
_____________ covers a broad _____________ of dry but rich
_____________ lying beyond today's Iraq.
It includes a portion of modern-day _____________ and _____________.
Mesopotamia (the so-called _____________ _____________) is a
perfect place for_____________.
With the _____________ lying in the east and the _____________ in the
west, both mighty streams carry _____________ from the mountains of
Turkey in the north.
Along their respective downstream courses to the _____________ Gulf,
they _____________ this rich soil on both sides of the floodplain, making
the entire area ideal for _____________ vegetation.
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When the first _____________ moved into _____________ all those
years ago, they made good use of this fertile land by planting all sorts of
_____________ there.
To _____________ their fields, they dug _____________to
_____________water from the rivers.
Over time, they had such a huge success, especially around a region
called _____________, that their _____________ (dubbed as the
Sumerian civilization) became one of the first and most _____________ in
the world.