Vocabulary
Geography
100
The geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The two bodies of water that the Fertile Crescent curves between
What is the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf
200
An area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared
What is Sumer?
200
This area had little rain and was hard for farming
What is Sumer
300
A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding
What is a levee?
300
An ideal place for farming because of mild weather and plentiful rains
What is the Zagros Foothills
400
Fine particles of rock
What is silt?
500
A means of supplying the land with water
What is irrigation?
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