CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Based on its name, what do you know about Mesopotamia?
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It is located between two rivers
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It is located in mountain foothills
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It was home for a large population
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It was home of the world’s first cities
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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: -Ancient Mesopotamia is considered the birthplace of writing and with it, recorded history. Its people also built the world’s first cities and developed the oldest known political and administrative systems, mostly centered in what is now Iraq.
Detailed explanation-3: -conflict-prone river basins of the region-that of the Euphrates and the Tigris Rivers, the two rivers that together bound “Mesopotamia."
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