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Geography of Mesopotamia
Fertile Crescent
 Very fertile part of
Southwest Asia
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Mediterranean Sea to
Persian Gulf
Modern Middle East
 Included Mesopotamia
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Also other civilizations
Mesopotamia
 “Land between the
Rivers”
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Greek
Between Tigris and
Euphrates
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Very unpredictable
flooding
 Located in modern-day
Iraq
River Floods
 Unpredictable floods
 Had to find way to deal with
floods
 Irrigation
 Basins
 Holes in the ground
 Canals
 Got water where they
needed it
 Levees
 Kept water out where they
did not need it
 Dams
 Blocked off the rivers to
hold water
Food Surplus
 More food than the
people needed
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Allowed people do things
other than farm
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Division of Labor
Craftsmen, merchants,
religious leaders,
government leaders
 Led to villages
 Then Cities
 Became the world’s first
civilization
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Complex society