GEOGRAPHY OF MESOPOTAMIA
What is the geography of Mesopotamia? Mesopotamia is made up of different regions. The land is fertile because of seasonal rains and the Tigris and Euphrates. It was a good region, but it presented several challenges to the people who lived there. They changed the environment to improve life and farming through irrigation. Irrigation is a manmade system that carries down water dug away from the river to the crops.
- Amonie
Mesopotamia is made up of different regions, each with its own geography. Mesopotamia means “land between two rivers” in Greek. The rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates, which flow through modern-day Iraq. The Euphrates also flows through much of Syria. Northern Mesopotamia is made up of hills and plains. The land is quite fertile due to seasonal rain and streams flowing from the mountain. This became the first civilization because of the good farming conditions in the river valley.
- Aniya
Mesopotamia was in southwestern Asia. The world's greatest civilization developed there. Did you know that Mesopotamia is a Greek word for the "land between two rivers"? Mesopotamia is the third oldest history in the world. Mesopotamia is between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
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