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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

1.Where did early settlers establish the first civilization? 2.Why was the area suitable for farming? 3.What did the settlers do to make the area more productive? 4.What happened as a result of increased production of food?

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

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Settlers first settled in 12,000 years ago. After they settled they were experts at farming and taking care of animals.Some early civilizations grew along rivers. People learned and worked together to control floods=====

=2.Farming Techniques= Farming there was not easy because there was not a lot of rain there in Mesopotamia so the soil there was very fertile. The people from Mesopotamia had an idea how to control the water. They would put bricks to use them as walls for the water and that was how they would plant the plants but they still had to make sure that the plants would not flud.

=3.Cities= The cities productive by trading items, food and animals to other cities. The leaders would some times choose to have more houses for people and that provide more people and a big city with people in it. The city, Mesopotamia grew in 4,000 between 3,000 B.C.

=4.Food Surplus/Division of Labor= The food was increasing by how much the farmers could grow every day, Some times they could surplus. Mesopotamian people mostly fish,meat,wheat,barley.people would get what ever jobs they wanted other could not. After that some people became important, like religious and government workers. When more people had different jobs there was more things done and it became a larger city. Some people stayed as farmers as years pasted because maybe they could not find a job and they had to stay as farmers

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