Textbook Day

Today was the first day that we used our textbook in Western Civ. Mr. Schick told us the way our classes would go for the rest of the year. We will take notes for the first half of class and for the rest of class we'll talk about the notes we took. We don't have enough textbooks for all of the classes so we can't have any homework in the book. The fertile crescent was an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea. Mesopotamia means land between the rivers. Mesopotamia is between the Tigris and the Euphrates River. The three disadvantages of living there were unpredictable flooding, no natural barriers for protection, and limited natural resources.