Fertile Crescent 1
Fertile Crescent 2
Fertile Crescent 3
100
large arc (curved shape) of rich, or fertile, farmland.
What is Fertile Crescent
100
a way of supplying water to an area of land
What is irrigation
100
type of arrangement where each worker specializes in a particular job or task
What is division of labor
200
Part of a larger area called the Fertile Crescent, lies between Asia Minor and the Persian Gulf in Southwest Asia
What is Mesopotamia
200
held water supplies
What is storage basins
200
political, religious, cultural, and economic centers of civilization
What is cities
300
mixture of rich soil and tiny brought by yearly floods on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, reason Mesopotamia’s farmland is fertile
What is Silt
300
human-made waterways, that connected basins to a network of ditches
What is canals
300
early civilizations of Mesopotamia depended these two great rivers
What is Tigris and the Euphrates
400
Crops dried up
What is water level too low
400
held back flood-waters when river levels were high
What is built-up banks
400
Farmers grew wheat, barley, and other types of grain on these
What is the first farm settlements formed in Mesopotamia
500
flooding destroyed crops, killed livestock, and washed away homes
What is water level too high
500
more products or items than needed
What is surplus
500
developed into the world’s first civilization
What is early villages
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