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Warm-UpWrite at least two sentences about
the topics listed below.
Map Skills
Five Themes of Geography
Unite Title:
Students will be able to…Locate and label various places on a map.
City of UR Taurus Mountains
City of Uruk Zagros Mountains
City of Babylon Persian Gulf
Tigris River Syrian Desert
Euphrates River Arabian Desert
Mesopotamia
Students will be able to…List the natural barriers that
surrounds Mesopotamia.
Locate various places on a map of the Middle East.
Define the term Mesopotamia.
Materials needed for today’s lesson.
Unlabeled Map
RULES FOR TODAY’S LESSON
Follow Directions
Raise Your Hand Before Speaking Or Leaving Your Seat
Respect Your Classmates and Your Teacher
Keep Hands, Feet, And Objects to Yourself
What are natural barriers?
List the natural barriers around Mesopotamia.
Natural barriers around Mesopotamia
• Zagros Mountains Red Sea
Taurus Mountains
Persian Gulf
Arabian Desert
Syrian Desert
Tigris River
Euphrates River
Mediterranean Sea
Warm-Up 9/24/2013
Where did the earliest civilization develop?
Answer… to the warm-up
Mesopotamia
Geography of the Fertile Crescent
Why is Mesopotamia called The Fertile Crescent???
Geography of the Fertile Crescent
Why is Mesopotamia called The Fertile Crescent???
Fertile CrescentLarge area of fertile land that stretched
from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.
Mesopotamia
Land between two rivers.
Mesopotamia’s location
Lay between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
How did Mesopotamia’s location shaped its
development.
Because it was near the rivers, Mesopotamia’s land was fertile and people established farming communities.
Tigris RiverA river that flowed along the
northeast boundary of Mesopotamia.
Why was the Tigris and Euphrates rivers important?
It provided water for irrigation
It provided water for fish
It provided water for food
Euphrates RiverA river that flowed along the
southwest boundary of Mesopotamia.
Ancient Mesopotamia…Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
flow into the Persian Gulf.
Could the Persian Gulf flow into the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers???
Mesopotamia was mostly in the same area as modern day Iraq.
Two Empires of Mesopotamia