Mesopotamia

Here is some stuff I learned about Mesopotamia for a school report.

Mesopotamia is a greek word that means the land between two rivers. The Tigris river and Euphrates river. The rivers begin in Eastern Turkey, they come together in S.E. Iraq and they empty into the Persian Gulf. This would be present day Middle Eastern Iraq. This was also know as the crossroads of the world. Mesopotamia commands access to three continents: Asia, Africa, and Europe. Lots of people call Mesopotamia the cradle of civilization because it's the place where the world's first civilization lived.

The two rivers created the Fertile Crescent. Even though the people had a really dry hot climate and they had to deal with seasonal flooding that was really difficult and challenging the farmers learned how to control the rivers and produce awesome crops.