GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Mesopotamia
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Fertile Crescent
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Babylon
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mesopotamia is located in the Fertile Crescent. The Fertile Crescent was a curved strip of land that extended from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf.
Detailed explanation-2: -fertile crescent illustration Its area covers what are now southern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Egypt, and parts of Turkey and Iran. Two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, regularly flooded the region, and the Nile River also runs through part of it.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Fertile Crescent is bounded on the west by the Mediterranean Sea and on the East by the Persian Gulf. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow through the heart of the Fertile Crescent. The region historically contained unusually fertile soil and productive freshwater and brackish wetlands.
Detailed explanation-4: -The word Mesopotamia comes from Greek words meaning “land between the rivers.” The rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates.