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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 • • • • • • • 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. • • • 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.