Chapter 3 Lesson 1 "Geography of the Fertile Crescent"

Where were the political, religious, cultural, and economic centers of civilizations in Mesopotamia?

• Fertile Crescent
• Tigris and Euphrates river valleys
• cities
• division of labor

What is a type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job?

• surplus
• irrigation
• division of labor
• silt

Where is the site of the world's first civilizations?

• Mesopotamia
• Tigris and Euphrates river valleys
• Fertile Crescent
• cities

What is the supplying water to an area of land?

• silt
• surplus
• Mesopotamia
• irrigation

Greek word meaning "between the rivers" and a region in Southwest Asia".

• Fertile Crescent
• Mesopotamia
• Tigris and Euphrates river valleys
• surplus

A large arc of rich farmland that extends from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.

• Mesopotamia
• Fertile Crescent
• Tigris and Euphrates river valleys
• silt

What is a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks that makes land ideal for farming?

• surplus
• irrigation
• Mesopotamia
• silt

What allowed people to do jobs other than farming?

• irrigation
• surplus
• silt
• cities