USA HISTORY

WORLD WAR II 1941 1945

THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers was called
A
Iran
B
Mesopotamia
C
Judea
D
Babylon
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Its modern name comes from the Greek for middle-mesos-and river-potamos-and literally means a “country between two rivers.” Those two rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia is thought to be one of the places where early civilization developed. It is a historic region of West Asia within the Tigris-Euphrates river system. In fact, the word Mesopotamia means “between rivers” in Greek.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mesopotamia, a region that includes all of modern-day Iraq as well as parts of Syria, Turkey and Iran, formed a significant part of the Fertile Crescent. Located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Mesopotamia’s name comes from a Greek term meaning “the land between the rivers.”

Detailed explanation-4: -The word “mesopotamia” is formed from the ancient words “meso, ” meaning between or in the middle of, and “potamos, ” meaning river. Situated in the fertile valleys between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the region is now home to modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, Turkey and Syria.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mesopotamia was an ancient civilization located in an area of the world we now know as the Middle East. It was bordered by two rivers-the Tigris in the east and the Euphrates in the west. In fact, the name Mesopotamia means “the land between the rivers".

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