WORLD CIVILIZATION

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: -5000 years ago the first civilizations appeared along the banks of large rivers: the Tigris and the Euphrates in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq); the River Nile in Egypt; the Indus River in India; and the Yellow and Blue rivers in China.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Fertile Crescent: Mesopotamia, Sumer, and Ur. Mesopotamia literally means “(land) between rivers” in ancient Greek. The oldest known occurrence of the name Mesopotamia dates to the 4th century BC when it was used to designate the land east of the Euphrates in North Syria.