About This Lesson
A map of Ancient Babylon along with 3 questions about what region this is in, why it's called the Fertile Crescent, and asking for 3 ways the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers helped Ancient Babylonians survive. The lesson asks students to make observations, draw inferences, and then explain how those inferences lead to an ideology in Ancient Babylon. The consciousness of Babylon was to have a strong government that controlled many aspects of life, and students will have to explain how the geography led to this consciousness.
