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Warm-Up W rite at least two sentences about the topics listed below.

Warm-Up W rite at least two sentences about the topics listed below. 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

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Warm-Up W rite at least two sentences about the topics listed below.

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  1. Warm-UpWrite at least two sentences about the topics listed below.

  2. Unite Title:

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. Materials needed for today’s lesson. Unlabeled Map

  6. 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

  7. What are natural barriers?

  8. List the natural barriers around Mesopotamia.

  9. Natural barriers around Mesopotamia • Zagros Mountains Red Sea • Taurus Mountains • Persian Gulf • Arabian Desert • Syrian Desert • Tigris River • Euphrates River • Mediterranean Sea

  10. Warm-Up 9/24/2013 • Where did the earliest civilization develop?

  11. Answer… to the warm-up • Mesopotamia

  12. Geography of the Fertile Crescent Why is Mesopotamia called The Fertile Crescent???

  13. Geography of the Fertile Crescent Why is Mesopotamia called The Fertile Crescent???

  14. Fertile Crescent • Large area of fertile land that stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.

  15. Mesopotamia • Land between two rivers.

  16. Mesopotamia’s location • Lay between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

  17. How did Mesopotamia’s location shaped its development. • Because it was near the rivers, Mesopotamia’s land was fertile and people established farming communities.

  18. Tigris River • A river that flowed along the northeast boundary of Mesopotamia.

  19. Why was the Tigris and Euphrates rivers important? • It provided water for irrigation • It provided water for fish • It provided water for food

  20. Euphrates River • A river that flowed along the southwest boundary of Mesopotamia.

  21. Ancient Mesopotamia… • Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow into the Persian Gulf. • Could the Persian Gulf flow into the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers???

  22. Mesopotamia was mostly in the same area as modern day Iraq.

  23. Two Empires of Mesopotamia

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