Geography of the Fertile Crescent

This name means "Land between two rivers" and was a name given by the Greeks. 

• empire
• Fertile Crescent
• polytheism
• Mesopotamia

What is silt?

• long period without rain 
• tiny bits of soil and rock carries by water
• wearing away of soil by water and wind
• the watering of crops

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

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

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

• Fertile Crescent
• polytheism
• cuneiform
• irrigation

What are the two main rivers in Mesopotamia?

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

What was the purpose of irrigation?

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

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

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

What did canals help with?

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

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

• Ziggurat
• Silt
• Polytheism
• Top Soil