Geography of Mesopotamia

What does Mesopotamia translate to?

• Land Between the Rivers

• Land Before Time

• Land Down Under

• Land of One Thousand Springs

What two rivers are found in Mesopotamia?

How hot can the deserts surrounding Mesopotamia get?

Where did the fish end up?

• Taurus Mountains

• Elburz Mountains

• Zagros Mountains

Where did the fish end up this time?

• Euphrates River

• Mediterranean Sea

• Tigris. River

• Persian Gulf

Where did the fish end up this time? Arabian Desert, Tigris River, or Gulf of Aden

• Arabian Desert

• Tigris River

• Gulf of Aden

Due to the access to water, what food source was important to the Mesopotamians?

What were some examples of crops that were grown in Mesopotamia?

Irrigation canals made it possible for farmers to water their crops.

What two groups of people made up Mesopotamia?

• Sumerians and Akkadians

• Egyptians and Sumerians

• Persian and Akkadian

• Egyptian and Akkadian