Part 1:

Watch the following video (use your earbuds!) to answer the questions below.

1) What was Mesopotamia's economy based on?

2) What three needs did the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers provide for the people of Mesopotamia?

3) What crops could be made into products like oil?

4) What crops could be exported from Mesopotamia for trade as raw materials?

5) What two inventions helped crops to be grown quicker and easier?

6) What caused city-states to trade with neighboring states?

7) What are four materials that were imported from mountain areas?

8) How did Mesopotamians originally trade? How does this system work?

9) What were three metals eventually used for trade?

10) How did trade help cause the creation of cuneiform?

Part 2:

Take a "Phoenician Trade" handout from the top of the Red Bookshelf. Then, complete the handout by using the Atlas of World History.