GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

WORLD HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
means “land between the rivers”
A
Fertile Crescent
B
city-state
C
empire
D
Mesopotamia
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -It is a historic region of West Asia within the Tigris-Euphrates river system . In fact, the word Mesopotamia means “between rivers” in Greek. Home to the ancient civilizations of Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia these peoples are credited with influencing mathematics and astronomy.

Detailed explanation-2: -The word “Mesopotamia, ‘’ is an ancient Greek name that is sometimes translated as “the land between two rivers”-the rivers being the Euphrates and the Tigris, both of which originate in eastern Turkey and flow south to the Persian Gulf.

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