Mesopotamia

The Fertile Crescent is a curved region filled with __________.

• Water

• Mountains

• Desert

• Rich Soil

This means "Land between the Rivers"

• Gilgamesh

• Fertile Crescent

• Mesopotamia

• Iraq

What time of the year do the rivers mainly flood.

• Spring

• Summer

• Fall

• Winter

What does silt provide?

• Dry land

• Wet land

• Poor land

• Rich land

The green area of the map is known as what?

• Mesopotamia

• The Tigris and Euphrates River Valley

• The Middle East

• The Fertile Crescent

Mesopotamia means

• the fertile crescent

• the riverlands

• the land between the rivers

• the land near the rivers

Fertile means

• dirt

• silt that's washed ashore

• overflow from rivers

• able to grow plants well

Why was it called the fertile crescent?

• When the rivers overflowed it washed fertile silt onto the shores so plants could grow easily in the entire region

• The people there were farmers

• The people in this region invented irrigation

• The crescent shaped area was filled with dense forests filled with fruit trees

Why were the people of Ancient Mesopotamia so successful in creating a civilization?

• They used irrigation to control the rivers in order to grow large amounts of crops

• They weren't very successful because their crops would be washed away in the floods

• They caught so much fish that they could trade it with other communities and didn't need to worry about growing crops

• The silt washed up onto the land making it more fertile

fertile soil

• levee

• irrigation

• silt

• city-state