MESOPOTAMIA

LANDFORMS IN MESOPOTAMIA

• Mesopotamia is mostly plains.
• There are some rolling hills, too

WHERE WAS MESOPOTAMIA?

• Mesopotamia means 'land between the rivers'
• These two rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
• Mesopotamia is located in modern day Iraq, Syria, and other, smaller, countries

FERTILE CRESCENT

• The fertile crescent is great for farming. Why?
• It has the perfect amount of rain
• Why did civilizations start in the FC?
• The great farming conditions made it easy to feed large populations

IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF MESOPOTAMIA

• Gilamesh (Sumerians)
• Sargon the Great (Akkadian)
• Hammurabi (Babylonian)
• Shamshi-Adad (Assyrian)
• Cyrus the Great (Persian)