Module 3: Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent

The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

• Fertile Crescent
• Mesopotamia
• Plain of Syria
• Nile River Delta

a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the tops, has many terraces

• pyramid
• ziggurat
• Ishtar
• battering ram

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

• writing
• monotheism
• cuneiform
• fertile crescent

a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory

• city-state
• province
• empire
• Mesopotamia

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

• Mesopotamia
• Fertile Crescent
• silt
• Babylon

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 were the rivers effect on people?

• provided fertile soil
• killed crops
• they were calming 
• were pretty to look at

What was the purpose of irrigation?

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

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

• Gilgamesh
• Hammarabui
• Nineveh
• Sargon