Mesopotamia
- Geography
- Black Sea
- Persian Gulf
- Euphrates River
- Tigris River
- Mediterranean Sea
- Zagros Mountains
- Political Structures
- Economy
- Cultural structures
- Explain how geographic and climatic features led to the region being known as the Fertile Crescent.
- irrigation
- silt
- metallurgy
- production of tools
- use of animals
- inventions: wheel and plow
- irrigation
- Describe how changes in agriculture in Sumer led to:
- economic growth
- expansion of trade
- transportation
- growth of independent city-states.
- Identify important achievements of the Mesopotamian civilization
- cuneiform
- clay tablets
- ziggurats
- Epic of Gilgamesh as the oldest written epic.
- Written law in the Code of Hammurabi, and explain the meaning of the phrase “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.”
- Describe the achievements of the ancient Israelites.