CIVILIZATION
INDUS VALLEY
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the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean
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the Tigris and the Persian Gulf
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the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates
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the Euphrates and the Tigris
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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 Tigris and Euphrates rivers originate in the Taurus mountains of southeastern Turkey where they are fed with alpine snows, lakes and rains.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mesopotamian civilisation flourished in the area that lies in a valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern Iraq.
Detailed explanation-4: -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".