Mesopotamia Map Assignment - Weebly



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Name: _______________________________________ Date: _________________________

- PORTFOLIO PIECE -

PART I

Draw a map of ancient Mesopotamia. Use the maps found on pages 31, 37, and 38 or your textbook as references. Draw the map as accurately as possible. Keep your map to scale (relative distance between places should be kept accurate) and make sure it’s as organized and neat as possible. Your map should fit the entire page and should have all required landmarks. Label the following on your map:

1. Bodies of Water: Tigris River, Euphrates River, Persian Gulf, Red

Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea.

2. Cities: Ur, Babylon, Ashur, Nineveh, Akkad, Kish.

3. Regions: Use different coloured pencils to outline and Identify the regions of Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldean Empires at their peaks. Also, indicate where the Persians and Hittites lived.

4. Other: Provide a legend, a North indicator, a border, a title, waters

should be blue, etc.

*Note: Part I will be included in your Mesopotamia Portfolio to be submitted for evaluation near the end of the unit. Please see the website for Rubric information.

PART II

Answer the following questions regarding the physical geography of the region using your notes and text (pgs. 30-32). Write the answers on a separate piece of paper and keep them in your notebook.

1. What are the four main advantages provided by the rivers to developing civilizations?

2. List the five main empires that rose and fell in Mesopotamia.

3. How did Mesopotamia’s geographic location (at the crossroads of three continents) both aid and case difficulties for the groups that lived there?

4. In a chart, outline the positive and negative features of the environments of Northern and Southern Mesopotamia. Which region do you think developed stronger Empires? Why?

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