Do Now: Using your maps. Please explain:
1. Why is Mesopotamia called the fertile crescent?
2. Describe the the land between two rivers.
3. What two rivers are we discussing?
4. How is it important to a great civilization?
5. List what it can provide.
6. List possible problems.
Notes:
1. 3500 B.C. - Mesopotamia developed earliest civilization. People learned to control and adapt to their environment.
2. Mesopotamia means "the land between two rivers" the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. (Modern Day Iraq)
3. Mesopotamia became know as the fertile crescent because of it;'s shape and the excellent quality of soil for farming.
4. The people who settled in this region were the Sumerians.
5. This region became a "crossroads." It provided open access to different cultures and allowed the spread and sharing of different ideas, also know as cultural diffusion.
Vocabulary
1. Silt - rich soil carried by flooding waters that make the land fertile
2. Hierarchy- a system of ranking people based on their Jobs, birth, beliefs or social standing.
3. Poly - meaning many
4. Theistic-meaning of or about god
5. Polytheistic- belief in more than one god
1. Why is Mesopotamia called the fertile crescent?
2. Describe the the land between two rivers.
3. What two rivers are we discussing?
4. How is it important to a great civilization?
5. List what it can provide.
6. List possible problems.
Notes:
1. 3500 B.C. - Mesopotamia developed earliest civilization. People learned to control and adapt to their environment.
2. Mesopotamia means "the land between two rivers" the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. (Modern Day Iraq)
3. Mesopotamia became know as the fertile crescent because of it;'s shape and the excellent quality of soil for farming.
4. The people who settled in this region were the Sumerians.
5. This region became a "crossroads." It provided open access to different cultures and allowed the spread and sharing of different ideas, also know as cultural diffusion.
Vocabulary
1. Silt - rich soil carried by flooding waters that make the land fertile
2. Hierarchy- a system of ranking people based on their Jobs, birth, beliefs or social standing.
3. Poly - meaning many
4. Theistic-meaning of or about god
5. Polytheistic- belief in more than one god
