Mesopotamia (Unit 3)

Wide, flat plain located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

• Fertile Crescent
• Mesopotamia
• Sumer
• Iraq

Mesopotamia’s two main rivers carry _ as they flow, helping to make soil more fertile when they flood.

• water
• silt
• stylus
• scribe

A way of supplying water to an area of land is known as

• fertilization
• divination
• irrigation
• agriculture

Sumerian farmers built canals to

• Make it easier to travel and trade with other peoples.
• Prevent rivers from flooding and move water where they need it
• Give people something to do.
• Encourage the formation of government.

#4:

• Mediterranean Sea
• Caspian Sea
• Black Sea
• Euphrates River

#2:

• Black Sea
• Red Sea
• Caspian Sea
• Persian Gulf

The sea (#10) just south of the Sea of Galilee

• Mediterranean Sea
• Dead Sea
• Black Sea
• Caspian Sea

The sea (#9) just north of the Dead Sea

• The Sea of Galilee
• The Mediterranean Sea
• The Caspian Sea
• The Black Sea

#3:

• The Dead Sea
• The Black Sea
• The Euphrates River
• The Persian Gulf

The river that is furthest west on this map:

• The Nile River
• The Yellow River
• The Tigris River
• The Euphrates River