Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent

The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

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

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

• writing

• monotheism

• cuneiform

• fertile crescent

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

• pyramid

• ziggurat

• Ishtar

• battering ram

A city that governs itself and its surrounding territory/farmland

• 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

A professional writer

• Sargon
• Nebuchadnezzar
• polytheism
• scribe