1. 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.

2. 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
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. 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
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6. 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
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