Mesopotamia: Vocab & Geography

In ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• Silt

• Mesopotamia

• Mashed Potatoes

• Sumer

A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks

• silt

• log

• hill

• levee

Fine particles of rock.

• stone

• concrete

• log

• silt

Click on the two largest Rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf

• Euphrates River

• Red River

• Tigris River

• Atlantic Ocean

To build; usually some kind of structure, such as a house.

• design

• dream

• construct

• locate

An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government.

• Sumer

• Mesopotamia

• City-State

• West Covina

A means of supplying land with water

• hose

• irrigation

• levee

• Sumer

An area in Southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared.

• Tigris

• Silt

• Mesopotamia

• Sumer

Mesopotamia means

• the land between temples

• the land between rivers

• the land between Eagles

• the land between people

Which region was hotter and dryer in Mesopotamia?

• Northern

• Southern