Chapter 2 Mesopotamia

Forced removal from one’s homeland, often to lands far away

• Detention

• Tribute

• Exile

• Justice

Governors of provinces in the Persian Empire

• Satraps

• Kings

• Emperors

Person who rules an empire

• Empire

• Emperor

• President

• Vice President

Land between two rivers

• Mesopotamia

• Plains

• Desert

• Dessert

Flat land bordering the banks of the river

• Plains

• Flood Plains

• Plain Plains

• Grassland

Fine fertile soil

• SILT

• SALT

• CLAY

• DIRT

I am prepared for the test on MESOPOTAMIA

• YES

• NO

• I WILL BE

• Not even close

Climate that has hot summers and limited rainfall

• Emperor

• Silt

• Arid

• Soil

Long period with little to no RAINFALL making it difficult to grow crops

• drought

• rain forest

• monsoon

Watering dry land by using ditches, pipes, streams

• Drought

• Run off

• irrigation

• Sprinklers