Transcript Mesopotamia September 16, 2011 Fertile Crescent Map What do

Mesopotamia
September 16, 2011
Fertile Crescent Map
What do you think the Fertile Crescent is?
Give the relative location of the Fertile
Crescent?
Why do you think the Fertile Crescent was
located where it was?
What two rivers were located at the center of
the Fertile Crescent?
Where did they flow into?
Fertile Crescent
Stretches from the Mediterranean Sea
and the Persian Gulf
Includes the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
What do you think?
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Mesopotamia is known as the
“cradle of civilization.” What
do you think this means?
Mesopotamia
Earliest known
civilization
Mesopotamia
means “the land
between the rivers.”
Tigris River and
Euphrates River
Mesopotamia
Early farming villages from the Neolithic
Age developed into civilizations.
What do you think they had to have to be
a civilization?
These civilizations had cities, organized
governments, art, religion, class
divisions, and a writing system.
Farming in Mesopotamia
Good farming conditions
made it easy to feed a
large number of people.
Trade provided a way for
goods and ideas to move
from place to place.
What about
organization?
Government in Mesopotamia
People formed governments
to make plans and decisions
for the communities.
Dealt with food supply and
building projects
Made laws to keep order
and assembled armies to
fend off enemies