Fertile Crescent Report
Due Monday, September 28th 2009
-1" Margins on all sides
-Minimum two pages double spaced
-Only Times New Roman
-12 point font
-Paper must be submitted to turnitin.com
-Include in-text citations
-Use Citation Machine on the Media Center website for bibliography
-Use http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/584/01/
1. What is the Fertile Crescent?
2. What important event occurred in this region?
3. When did the Neolithic revolution occur?
4. Where is the Fertile Crescent located? Describe the relative location using physical features.
5. Why do you think people started farming rather than hunt and gather food? (opinion)
6. How did farming impact the way people lived?
7. Describe one early civilization that lived in the Fertile Crescent. Include all applicable characteristics of civilization.
Use the following sources:
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/middle_east/
http://history-world.org/neolithic.htm
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/NEWCROP/Hort_306/text/lec03.pdf
http://mpls.k12.mn.us/Student_Online_Resources.html
