CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Question
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Pakistan and India
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along the Benin river
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along the Arabian sea
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between Tigris and Euphrates rivers
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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: -Mesopotamia refers to the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, both of which flow down from the Taurus Mountains.
Detailed explanation-3: -The two rivers have their sources within 50 miles (80 km) of each other in eastern Turkey and travel southeast through northern Syria and Iraq to the head of the Persian Gulf.
Detailed explanation-4: -The regular flooding along the Tigris and the Euphrates made the land around them especially fertile and ideal for growing crops for food. That made it a prime spot for the Neolithic Revolution, also called the Agricultural Revolution, that began to take place almost 12, 000 years ago.