Fertile Crescent

The land between the Tigris and Euphrates river is

• Fertile Crescent

• Mesopotamia

• Egypt

• Ur

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

• Fertile Crescent

• Tigres

• Mesopotamia

• Sumer

A system that supplies dry land with water

• canals

• farming

• irrigation

• crops

2 Main rivers in Mesopotamia

• The Nile and Tigres rivers

• The Amazon river and Euphrates river

• Tigres and Euphrates rivers

What was the purpose of irrigation?

• dry up the wet soil

• kill the crops

• to provide water to the crops

• give people drinking water

The word Mesopotamia means

• the land between 2 rivers

• fertile soil

• first civilization

What did canals help with?

• kill crops

• give people bath water

• controlling floods

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

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

• artisans

• Division of labor

• Bob the builder

What was one major problem for people living near rivers?

• the smell

• the heat

• flooding