EARLY EXPLORERS
Hello! My name is Hannah Dewar and today I am going to be talking about the early explorers and the Fertile Crescent. First I will talk about the early explorers.
The early explorers are the people that came to America a long, long time ago. In fact, they came around 11,500 years ago! Back then the Ice Age was around. This is what it looked like. Could you imagine walking around this! The explorers had to be careful; if the ice they were standing on broke, well they would be as good as gone.
They had to cross the Beringia land bridge-which is now underwater-to get to Alaska. The Beringia land bridge is now called the Bering Strait. This “bridge” connected Asia to Alaska. About a thousand years later the early explorers …show more content…
Today it is located in parts of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, the State of Palestine, Egypt, Turkey, and Iran.
The Fertile Crescent originally got its name because of its crescent shape. The Fertile Crescent was home to some of the earliest human civilization in the world.It was great for agriculture because it was rich in water and had good quality soil.
In the Fertile Crescent, there was much diversity. The most popular languages spoken were Sumerian and Akkadian, spoken by the people of Sumer and Akkad. The climate changed many times: somedays it would be sunny, while other days it would be cold.
Since it was home to the earliest civilizations, it got the nickname “The Cradle of Civilization.” Sumer, Uruk, and Akkad were probably the most known cities in the Fertile Crescent. Sumer was in fact the southernmost city of all of Mesopotamia. The Sumerians called themselves the “black-headed people.” The Sumerians helped invent cuneiform, which was a form of picture writing. Akkad ruled over a vast part of the Fertile Crescent. Eventually the Akkadian Empire fell. Uruk was actually where the first civilizations arose
Hello! My name is Hannah Dewar and today I am going to be talking about the early explorers and the Fertile Crescent. First I will talk about the early explorers.
The early explorers are the people that came to America a long, long time ago. In fact, they came around 11,500 years ago! Back then the Ice Age was around. This is what it looked like. Could you imagine walking around this! The explorers had to be careful; if the ice they were standing on broke, well they would be as good as gone.
They had to cross the Beringia land bridge-which is now underwater-to get to Alaska. The Beringia land bridge is now called the Bering Strait. This “bridge” connected Asia to Alaska. About a thousand years later the early explorers …show more content…
Today it is located in parts of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, the State of Palestine, Egypt, Turkey, and Iran.
The Fertile Crescent originally got its name because of its crescent shape. The Fertile Crescent was home to some of the earliest human civilization in the world.It was great for agriculture because it was rich in water and had good quality soil.
In the Fertile Crescent, there was much diversity. The most popular languages spoken were Sumerian and Akkadian, spoken by the people of Sumer and Akkad. The climate changed many times: somedays it would be sunny, while other days it would be cold.
Since it was home to the earliest civilizations, it got the nickname “The Cradle of Civilization.” Sumer, Uruk, and Akkad were probably the most known cities in the Fertile Crescent. Sumer was in fact the southernmost city of all of Mesopotamia. The Sumerians called themselves the “black-headed people.” The Sumerians helped invent cuneiform, which was a form of picture writing. Akkad ruled over a vast part of the Fertile Crescent. Eventually the Akkadian Empire fell. Uruk was actually where the first civilizations arose