Chapter 2: Geography of the Fertile Crescent

1. What made the Fertile Crescent good for farming?

2. Into what body of water do these rivers flow?

3. In ancient times what civilization developed between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?

4. Where do the rivers begin?

5. What two important rivers are shown on the map?

1. The fertile soil near the rivers make it good for farming.

2. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow into the Persian Gulf.

3. Mesopotamia developed in the fertile crescent, this was an ideal place to form the first civilizations.

4. The fertile crescent stretches from the Nile is Egypt to the Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq.

5. On every map of the fertile crescent, two important rivers shown are the Tigris and Euphrates.