Transcript Aim: How did the Fertile Crescent effect the land of Mesopotamia?

Aim: How did the Fertile Crescent
affect the people of Mesopotamia?
Do Now: What is irrigation?
Mesopotamia
• Mesopotamia is the world oldest civilization.
• The Greeks called this river valley
Mesopotamia, meaning “Land between 2
rivers.”
Land Between 2 Rivers
• Mesopotamia civilization began in between
the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Land Between 2 Rivers
• Both rivers flow into the Persian Gulf.
• This region formed a strip of rich, well watered
land called the Fertile Crescent.
Farming
The Mesopotamians were the first to practice
irrigation.
The snow in the northern mountains would melt
causing unpredictable floods, that could be
helpful and dangerous.