Geography, Economics and Mesopotamia

Where was Mesopotamia

• America

• India

• The Land between the Tigris and Euphrates.

What are the two major rivers?

• Missouri and Missippi

• Yellow and Orange

• Tigris and Euphrates

A large arc of rich, or fertile, farm land in the Middle East

• The Fertile Crescent

• City-State

• The City of Ur

a mixture or rich soil and tiny rocks.

• Salt

• Silt

• Mud

an organized society within a specific area

• City-State

• Government

• Farmland

• Civilization

a way of supplying water to an area of land

• Irrigation

• man made lakes

• Damns

human-made waterways, that connected basins to a network of ditches.

• Canals

• Ponds

• Lakes

consisted of a central city and all the countryside around it.

• Government

• City-State

• State-City

One of Uruk's kings, became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature.

• Gilgamesh

• Sargon

• Moses

• Abraham

Who is said to have established the first Empire?

• Sargon

• Gilgamesh

• King Tut

• Moses