🗺️ Part 1: Map Activity

Instructions: Your teacher will provide you with a blank map outline of the ancient world. Use this map to complete the following tasks:

1. Label the following rivers on your map:

• Tigris River

• Euphrates River

2. Locate and color the Fertile Crescent region on your map. Use a light green color.

3. Draw arrows showing the direction these rivers flow (from mountains toward the Persian Gulf).

📚 Part 2: Vocabulary Matching

Instructions: Match each vocabulary word with its correct definition by writing the letter in the blank.

_____ 1. Fertile Crescent

_____ 2. Silt

_____ 3. Irrigate

A. Fine soil deposited by rivers that makes land good for growing crops

B. A crescent-shaped region with fertile land where early civilizations began

C. To supply water to crops through channels or pipes

4. Which of these best explains why the Fertile Crescent got its name?

It was shaped like a crescent moon and had rich soil for farming

It was the first place where the moon was studied

It was a desert region shaped like a crescent

It was discovered during a crescent moon

5. Why do you think early humans chose to settle near rivers like the Tigris and Euphrates? Give at least two reasons.

6. Write a complete sentence explaining why the Fertile Crescent was important for early civilizations.

7. How do you think silt from rivers helped ancient farmers? Explain in your own words.

8. Fill in the blank: Ancient people created ______________ to bring water from rivers to their farmland in dry areas.