MesoGeo Vocab & Details

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Across
  1. 6. random, unreliable, uncertain
  2. 7. an early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government
  3. 8. a wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding over its banks
  4. 11. system a means of supplying areas of land with water by using levees, canals and dams
  5. 13. one of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf that is on the east side of Mesopotamia
  6. 14. a structure built across a river to control the river’s flow
  7. 15. fine particles of rock that could clog irrigation canals
  8. 17. Crescent an arc-shaped area in southwest Asia, with rich soil, currently referred to as the Middle East
Down
  1. 1. Deserts two large deserts that border Mesopotamia to the west/south (towards Egypt)
  2. 2. man-made waterway used for irrigation and transportation
  3. 3. Mountains a mountain range north of Mesopotamia where both the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers begin
  4. 4. the study of how humans interact with their environment
  5. 5. in ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
  6. 9. all of the physical surroundings in a place, including land, water, animals, plants and climate
  7. 10. one of the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf that is on the west side of Mesopotamia
  8. 12. barrier geographic features of an environment / landscape that make crossing land difficult
  9. 16. an area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared