MESOPOTAMIA LESSON 1 REVIEW (9/15)

ANSWERS AT BOTTOM:

1. When did civilization begin in the Fertile Crescent area?
2. What rivers made this area so fertile?
3. What is the land between the 2 rivers called?
4. What country is in the area of Mesopotamia today?
5. What famous Biblical place was most likely in Mesopotamia?
6. Where do the Tigris and Euphrates rivers end?
7. Flooding in Mesopotamia was what?
8. Some areas experienced no flooding and what instead?
9. What did farmers do to control the unpredictable flooding?
10. Know the 7 places on the map of the Fertile Crescent.


ANSWERS:
1. 4000 B.C.
2. Tigris and Euphrates
3. Mesopotamia
4. Iraq
5. Garden of Eden
6. Persian Gulf
7. Unpredictable
8. drought
9. Irrigation
10.