Performance Assessment Create a tri-fold travel brochure and present it to the class. Your project must include the natural characteristics that define the region known as the Middle East (either past or present), relative and absolute location, climate. Culture. Ecosystems, and technology.

Final Performance Assessment Title of Travel Agency Slogan Emblem Price Map of Mesopotamia Picture Interest Inventions and Innovations of Mesopotamia on back Physical Features of Mesopotamia Landforms, Bodies of Water, Plant and Animal life on back. Geography Four Geographic Regions Climate Including: Average Temperatures and Average Rainfall CSI07

Climate: In contrast to the comfortable areas bordering the Mediterranean and Arabian Seas the inland regions are desert and almost uninhabitable. This same climate extends from the Arabian peninsula into northern Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Iran, and further to the East Afghanistan. Rainfall: five to ten inches per year. Usually in the form of a downpour for just a very short period in winter. Temperatures: Average 130 degrees during a summer day but as low as 40 degrees at night. Agriculture: With irrigation wheat, barley, olives, figs, nuts, and grapes can be cultivated in the steppe regions. Sheep, goats, donkeys, and camels can be raised even in the desert regions. Natural Resources: (Scattered throughout the region) North Africa- Iron Ore & Phosphates Israel- Salt Turkey- chromium and molybdenum Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran- Oil The Middle East CSI07

Black Sea Caspian Sea Asia Mediterranean Sea Persian Gulf Africa Syrian Desert Zagros Mountains Taurus Mountains Jerusalem Tigris River Euphrates River Assur * Nineveh * * Babylon * Ur Persian Gulf Caspian Sea Mesopotamia CSI07

Black Sea Caspian Sea Turkey Iran Lebanon Syria Mediterranean Sea Iraq Egypt Syria Tigris River Euphrates River Persian Gulf Caspian Sea Israel Lebanon Iran Jordan Saudi Arabia Iraq CSI07

Iraq – Ancient Land of Mesopotamia Three Geographic Regions: Mountains in Northeast and Eastern sections. This area has good pastures and a few fertile plateaus. Central Desert Area doted with few oasises. Irrigated valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Iran – Once known as Persia Geography: High plateau much of it desert Climate: dry continental Natural Resources: coal, iron, copper, lead, borax, manganese, nickel, cobalt, and oil. Agriculture: tobacco, cotton, corn, rice all grown on small farms. Iraq – Ancient Land of Mesopotamia CSI07