Name: _______________________ Period: _______ Date: ____________
MAP of ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA
Directions:
1. USE the maps on pages 57, 60, 61, 63, and 76 in your textbook
2. LABEL and SHADE each item on the checklist below
3. CHECK OFF each place as you label it
4. Include a compass rose and a map key on the front side of your page
Bodies of Water:
1. LABEL
2. SHADE with blue colored pencil
Mediterranean Sea □ Persian Gulf
Black Sea □ Caspian Sea
Red Sea □ Tigris River
Euphrates River □ Nile River
Dead Sea
Physical Features:
1. LABEL
2. SHADE in color in parenthesis
Taurus Mountains (brown) □ Zagros Mountains (brown)
Syrian Desert (orange) □ Sinai Peninsula (just label)
Arabian Peninsula (just label)
City-states:
1. LABEL
Ur □ Uruk □ Nineveh
Babylon □ Jerusalem □ Akkad
Regions:
1. OUTLINE in the color in parenthesis
FERTILE CRESCENT(green) □ SUMER (yellow)
Add a Map Key:
1. Create a map key indicating the color of the outline which you will
use to display the Fertile Crescent and Sumer
(Look in the book on page 57 for an example of a map key)
Add a Compass Rose:
1. Include a compass rose on your map!
Total points __________ / 12 points
MESOPOTAMIA CRISCUOLO/RICE 2007-2008