THE FERTILE CRESCENT/7TH GRADE

THE FERTILE CRESCENT/7TH GRADE

The Tigris and Euprates Rivers are the 2 most important physical features of the region known as MESOPOTAMIA

WHERE IS MESOPOTAMIA???? Mesopotamia lives between Asia Minor and the Persian Gulf. The region is part of a large area known as the FERTILE CRESCENT KNOWN which extends from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.

The most important factor in Mesopotamia's farmland was controlling water flow. This was controlled through the process of IRRIGATION , which is a way of supplying water to an are of land.

To irrigate the land, they dug canals which are human-made waterways , to get the water from the Tigris and Euprates Rivers. This was a lot of work considering they didn't have machinery to do the job.

Since irrigation was so successful, farmers were able to grow more food than they needed. This is called a surplus.

More food meant not everyone needed to farm. people could have other jobs. people became crafters, religious leaders and government workers. This is known as Division of Labor. That just meant work was divided among many people.

Having all kinds of jobs, or division of labor meant that society could accomplish more. Large projects like construction, digging up irrigation systems and creating a government was now possible.

Mesopotamian settlements grew in size. Cities were developing. People traded goods and did business together. These settlements were the political, religious, cultural and economic centers of civilization.

Multiple Choice

Each worker specializing in a task or job is known as ______________.

• Polytheism
• Irrigation
• Division of Labor
• Hammurabi's Code

Multiple Choice

After the rivers flooded a mixture of rich soil called ___________ covered the land and made it good for farming.

• Ziggurat
• Silt
• Polytheism
• Top Soil

Multiple Choice

What modern day country is Mesopotamia mostly in?

• India
• Egypt
• China
• Iraq

Multiple Choice

What did canals help with?

• Bringing a single ruler
• Decreasing the Population
• Controling Floods
• Bringing Drinking Water

Multiple Choice

Which problem did Mesopotamian's have to solve to protect their fields and homes?

• how to control flooding
• how to prevent wind erosion
• how to build bricks when they had no timber or stone
• how to defend against attacks from traders

Multiple Choice

The word "Mesopotamia" means

• middle of the fertile crescent
• land in the middle of the desert 
• land between the rivers
• land north of the sea

Multiple Choice

Mesopotamia is called the "cradle of civilization" because

• many ideas and inventions used by other later civilizations came from Mesopotamia
• it was the world's first civilization
• none of the above
• It was were most babies were born

Multiple Choice

Mesopotamia is called the "cradle of civilization" because

• many ideas and inventions used by other later civilizations came from Mesopotamia
• it was the world's first civilization
• none of the above
• It was were most babies were born

Multiple Choice

The Fertile Crescent....

• was a large geographical region
• stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
• was the location where the earliest civilization started
• all of these

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of irrigation?

• keep crops dry
• to provide water to crops
• provide indoor plumbing
• give people drinking water

Multiple Choice

What were the rivers effect on people?

• provided fertile soil
• killed crops
• they were calming 
• were pretty to look at

Multiple Choice

What are the two main rivers in Mesopotamia?

• Tigris and Nile
• Tigris and Amazon
• Tigris and Euphrates
• Euphrates and Mississippi

Multiple Choice

a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams

• Fertile Crescent
• polytheism
• cuneiform
• irrigation

Multiple Choice

Curved strip of land that runs from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf

• Mesopotamia
• Fertile Crescent
• silt
• Babylon

Multiple Choice

The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

• Fertile Crescent

• Mesopotamia

• Plain of Syria

• Nile River Delta