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Project Guiding Framework/Questions
Locate and describe the major river systems. Discuss the physical settings that supported permanent settlement and early civilizations. Trace the development of agricultural techniques that permitted the production of economic surplus. Explain the emergence of cities as centers of culture and power

Where did early settlers establish the first civilization? Why was the area suitable for farming? What did the settlers do to make the area more productive? What happened as a result of increased production of food?

Suggested Topics
Geography Farming Techniques Food Surplus/ Division of Labor Cities

Mesopotamia geography
Mesopotamia means that land between two rivers is in the middle surrounded by water and the two rivers that are around it are called the Tigris river and the Euphrates river.



Mesopotamia Farming Techniques
Mesopotamia had flooding from the two rivers Tigris and Euphrates river. Mesopotamia got to much over-flows with silt .The silt was a big problem so men worked hard and and had the canals, gates, ditches and also leaves. Their floods arrived in the beginning of summer and ended in spring. Over-flows also arrived when the snow of the Turktish mountain melts.

Food surplus/divison of laber
They eat food like barley,wheat,beans,grape,apples,oranges,and also vegetable like corn cucumbers and other stuff like that are to grow in crop and they have their own sheep and cow that gives them milk, cheese, or meat.Their culture is that they believed in seven gods the gods of land are called sky,light, moon,clear water,salty water and what we breath which is wind and they also work together and they invent several thing like the wheel. They made there houses out of dry mud they made them in a rectangle shape they also invented writing there writing was called cuneiform and also dressed with clothing that was made out from their sheep.

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Mesopotamia

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