mlMesopotamia

HomelandLocation Geography Economy/Agriculture  Challenges  War/Military/Defense
 * 1) Between Persian Gulf and Med Sea.
 * 2) Tigris River and Euphrates River
 * 3) Modern day Iraq
 * 4) Southwest Asia
 * 1) Curved shape
 * 2) Flat swampy land
 * 3) Rich soil = silt
 * 4) Fertile crescent
 * 5) Desert climate
 * 6) Mesopotamia means "land between the rivers"
 * 1) Traded grain, cloth, and tools
 * 2) Received stone, wood, and metal
 * 3) Grew wheat, barley, and sorghum
 * 4) Through trade exchanged ideas
 * 5) Cultural diffusion
 * 1) Unpredictable flooding (good-soil, bad- life lost, ruin crops.)
 * 2) Natural resources were limited
 * 3) Little rain = desert
 * 4) No natural barriers = defenseless (easy to see enemy coming
 * 5) Not a lof of building materials
 * 6) Need water for crops → built irrigation ditches


 * 1) Built city walls
 * 2) Constant war between city-states
 * 3) Hard to defend

 Institution
 * 1) City-state
 * 2) Independent self governing city including its surrounding farm land