Creation, Mesopotamia, and the Fertile Crescent

The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

• Fertile Crescent

• Mesopotamia

• The Garden of Eden

• Nile River Delta

writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay

• wedgie

• monotheism

• cuneiform

• fertile crescent

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

• Mesopotamia
• Fertile Crescent
• silt
• Babylon

What are the two main rivers in Mesopotamia?

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

What were the rivers' effect on people?

• provided fertile soil

• killed crops

• they were calming

• were pretty to look at

Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?

• Gilgamesh
• Hammarabui
• Nineveh
• Sargon

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

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

What modern day country is Mesopotamia mostly in?

• India
• Egypt
• China
• Iraq

This picture shows an area known as the..

• Farming Curve
• Fertile Crescent
• Green C
• Fertile Curve