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Cuadro resumen

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Lesson 1 Summary

Name Period
Use with pages 34–39.

Lesson 1: The Fertile Crescent


DIRECTIONS: Review the vocabulary terms in the box. Read the summary to reveal how one of the first civilizations
developed in the Fertile Crescent. As you read, underline important details in each section that relate to that section’s title.
Think about what you already know, what you want to know, and what you have learned after reading the summary.

Vocabulary
civilization: a group of people who live in a complex, organized society within a culture
fertile: rich, as in soil; good for growing crops
plain: a flat area of land
plateau: an area of high, flat land
irrigation: a system for watering crops
city-state: a city with its own form of government, villages, and traditions
region: an area of land with common physical features
artisan: a craftsperson

Where Civilization Began (p. 35) The People (p. 37)


The earliest civilizations developed in The people of southern Mesopotamia solved
southwestern Asia in about 3500 B.C. A many problems. Mesopotamia did not have many
civilization is a group of people who live in a resources. Yet the lack of trees and stones did not
complex, organized society within a culture. keep the people from building homes. They built
Civilizations developed in a part of southwest Asia huts out of reeds. Later they made bricks by
that stretched from the eastern shores of the mixing mud with straw. They used the bricks to
Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. We call this build homes, temples, and palaces. They became
area the Fertile Crescent because its land was very expert farmers and developed better tools. They
fertile, or rich, and shaped like a crescent, or used the rivers to move goods. They were able to
curve. A flat area of land, or plain, stretched produce a surplus of food. The production of
between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. This plain surplus food was a major step toward the rise of
became known as Mesopotamia, or “the land civilization in southern Mesopotamia.
between the rivers.” One of the first civilizations
appeared in Mesopotamia.
Growth of City-States and Trade (p. 38-39)
The population in southern Mesopotamia grew as
Climate and Rivers (p. 36) people became better farmers. New settlers arrived
The climate in parts of the Fertile Crescent was not from different regions of the Fertile Crescent. By
good for farming. It was very hot and dry in the 3500 B.C., several villages became city-states. A
summer. It either rained too much or not enough. In city-state is a city that has become an independent
about 5000 B.C., farmers began to look for better state. A city-state has its own form of government,
villages, and traditions. There was plenty of surplus
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land and climate. They moved from a plateau, or


area of high, flat land, in the northern part of the food. People were able to work in other jobs
Fertile Crescent. They settled on the plain between besides farming. Some were artisans, or
the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The rivers gave craftspeople, such as potters and weavers. Others
them a permanent source of water for farming. were religious leaders, politicians, soldiers, or
traders. Traders went on long journeys to trade
During seasons of low rainfall, farmers used the
with faraway peoples. They brought back goods
rivers to set up irrigation systems. Farmers dug
that Mesopotamia lacked. Trade helped
trenches and ditches that brought water from the
Mesopotamian culture spread to other parts of the
rivers to their fields.

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world.
Lesson Review
Name Period
Use with pages 34–39.

Lesson 1: The Fertile Crescent _____%


DIRECTIONS: Read the passage below. Write the main idea and specific details to support it in the boxes.

Around the year 3500 B.C., one of the first make farming easy. During the extremely hot
civilizations began in a region known today as the summers, the land was very dry. During the rainy
Fertile Crescent. The center part of the Fertile season, the rivers flooded the land. Natural
Crescent is a land known as Mesopotamia. resources were limited to little more than water and
Mesopotamia lies between two rivers, the soil. There were few trees to provide wood for
Tigris and Euphrates. In fact, the word construction and other uses.
Mesopotamia means “the land between the Fortunately, the people were good problem
rivers.” These rivers played an important role in solvers. They designed an irrigation system that
the civilization that developed there. brought water from the rivers to their fields.
The people who lived in Mesopotamia had to This system allowed them to grow crops such as
overcome many obstacles in order to survive. straw. By mixing the straw with mud, they were
The climate in this part of the world did not able to make bricks for building shelters.

Main Idea Detail

Detail

Detail
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Detail

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