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The Only Items on your desk should be

The Only Items on your desk should be. Note taking materials (pencil, paper) Self created map of Mesopotamia. All Maps You Create Must Have…. A Title A Compass Rose A legend. Geography of Mesopotamia. Fertile Crescent.

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The Only Items on your desk should be

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  1. The Only Items on your desk should be • Note taking materials (pencil, paper) • Self created map of Mesopotamia

  2. All Maps You Create Must Have… • A Title • A Compass Rose • A legend

  3. Geography of Mesopotamia

  4. Fertile Crescent • The Fertile Crescent is a region in the Middle East that stretches in a large crescent shape from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea • The Fertile Crescent includes Mesopotamia • A wide flat plain between to great rivers • Mesopotamia means the “land between the rivers”

  5. Mesopotamia • Land between the rivers • Settled before 5000 B.C.E. • Home to numerous early civilizations • The Tigris and Euphrates rivers often flooded during the spring • The floods left a very fertile mud called silt • Flat swampy region

  6. Absolute Location • 33.7 ‘N, 43.5’ E • What makes the location ideal?

  7. Northern Mesopotamia • Hills • Plains • Fertile land due to seasonal rains • Streams flow from Zagros Mountains • Many raw materials • Timber • Metals • Stone

  8. Add Zagros Mountains To Warm-Up Map

  9. Southern Mesopotamia • Marshy areas • Dry plains • Tigris River • Fast flowing • Euphrates River • Easily navigable • Farmers learned to control the flooding • Used to irrigate fields

  10. Annual Rainfall in Mesopotamia

  11. Vegetation

  12. Wild Grain in Mesopotamia

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