7 Characteristics
This characteristic describes the beliefs held by a civilization?
What is: Religion
The two major rivers in this area are.
The word "Mesopotamia" is greek for:
What is: "land between the rivers"
The Fertile Crescent includes a small portion of Egypt along the ____________ river.
What is: Nile River
What happened in Mesopotamia once a year?
This characteristic describes different classes of people (hint: commonly reinforced by jobs/careers).
What is: Social Structure
The defininition of "geographic feature" is:
What is:
A geographical feature is a geographical formation or component of the planet that refers to a place, area, or region as shown on a map. OR - features of a landscape
The first known civilization in Mesopotamia was:
What is: Sumer
Prior to settling in the Fertile Crescent, most people were:
What is: Nomads wandering around in search of food
People moved to the fertile crescent for this reason.
What is: food shortages in the hills
This characteristic describes a culture's architecture, plays, poetry, painting, etc.
What is: the arts
What is: Land and water
Mesopotamia was the _______________ place to have all seven of the characteristics of a civilization.
What is: first
Sumer was located in the ___________ part of the Fertile Crescent.
What is: Southernmost
This is what early Mesopotamians built in order to control the floods.
What is: an irrigation system
This characteristic describes a cultures laws, military, etc.
What is: government
This resulted in Mesopotamia's fertile soil.
What is: rivers (Tigris, Euphrates) flooding
Mesopotamians figured out how to control their water supply through this method.
What is: irrigation/irrigation projects
The Fertile Crescent is no longer fertile due to__________________.
Some of the early settlers did not get along, so many cities did this to protect themselves.
What is: build large walls around their city
The wheel is an example of this characteristic.
What is: Advanced technology
Mesopotamia is not labeled on maps today. Instead, we know that it was located in modern day ________.
What is: Iraq/middle east
Mesopotamia is considered to be the _____________ of __________________.
What is: cradle of civilization
_________________ played a major role in helping the Sumerians decide to settle in the Fertile Crescent.
What is: Domesticating animals and plants (agriculture).
Villages depended on each other and worked together to do this.
What is: maintain water supply/irrigation systems