It's the earliest center of human civilization. It had many city-states, which are separate entities with their own rulers.

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Label the area the The Fertile Crescent and color it green.

Locating Mesopotamia

Overseas and Land Transport

Many places around the region traded with Mesopotamia. Heavy items were traded by boats and ships while lighter items were carried by land in packs or on animal's backs.

Trade and barter was important because people could not make everything themselves. Scribes were important because they recorded the business transactions.

​Trade and Barter

​Locate the mountain ranges on the map and color them purple. Then label each of them.

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Mountains

Mesopotamians grew wheat, apples, grapes, barley, figs, melons. and dates. They used a seeder plow to dig furrows in the dirt so they could plant seeds.

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Agricultural Innovations

​None of this would be possible without the freshwater rivers that existed in this area. Those rivers are the Tigris and the ...Euphrates River. Label it on your map and color them blue.