ANCIENT CULTURES
Objectives: Use mental maps to visualize the location of an ancient civilization Use research to compare mental maps to actual locations You have studied a little about oceans as a geographic feature. This lesson includes rivers, which are another water geographic feature. You have, no doubt, heard of Ancient Egypt, the Tigris River, the Nile River, and the Mayan Civilization. However, many people cannot really “picture” where these civilizations were located. Can you? Think about how people who lived along the Tigris and the Nile Rivers depended on the rivers for their living. Directions: Use mental maps and research to answer the questions below. Part A Ancient civilizations developed around the world. [unique_solution]Using your mental map, answer questions #1-4. 1. Mesopotamia, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, is on which continent? 2. The Nile River is on which continent and empties into which body of water? 3. The Yucatan Peninsula, seat of the Mayan civilization, is on which continent and separates which gulf from which sea? 4. The Huang Ho River (once known as the Yellow River) is on which continent and flows through which present-day country? Part B Use research to answer questions #5-6. 5. Conduct research to locate where these ancient cultures evolved. How close was your mental map of these civilizations to the correct location? 6. Conduct research and provide three facts about each of these geographic regions.