Thinking like a Real Estate Agent: Lesson #1 Dissecting a Map

Name:___________________________________________________________ Date:______________________

Look at the map on pages 24 & 25 of the World History textbook and answer these questions:

1) What are the four labeled rivers on this map?

2) What are the three seas that are on this map?

3) What is the name of the gulf on this map? ________________________________________________

4) Turn to the map at the front of the book on pages A36 and A37 and find this gulf at (30N, 50 E). Now put
your finger in this gulf (the same one from #3) and follow the water to the ocean. What bodies of water do
you travel on?

a) Gulf of ___________________________
b) __________________________Sea
c) __________________________Ocean

5) Go back to pages 24&25 and find out more about the land. What is the name of the closest desert?

6) What is the name of the closest mountains?

7) What is a crescent? ___________________________________________________________________

8) Why is it called the Fertile Crescent?

9) Why has the coastline changed near 30N, 50E…look at the key!
 Start filling out the Pros and Cons of living in Mesopotamia. Read the photocopy of pages 27&28 and use
information from the map on pages 24 & 25 to fill out the most comprehensive list of pros and cons below.
Pros for living in Mesopotamia Cons for living in Mesopotamia

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