Mesopotamia+Six

=__Mesopotamia__=

What
====Mesopotamia is a place existing a long time ago between the Tigris and Euphrates River and was once a flourishing land which is widely believed to be one of the first civilizations ever. There were other civilizations too, but Mesopotamia was believed to be the very first.That means it existed since the Bronze Age and it had empires like Sumer, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian, though it was the Sumerians who established the world’s first civilizations around 3500 B.C. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers both flow through the persian gulf too, providing irrigation all over Mesopotamia ====

**Where**
====Mesopotamia was located in the Northern Europe and as I said, it is called the land between rivers. It was owned by the Ancient Greeks, and in 150 B.C it was owned by Parthians, the tigris, and Euphrates rivers flowed all through mesopotamia and into the Armenian mountains. Eventually they would reach the Persian Gulf.====

**Climate**
====Some people say that Iraq has the similar weather to Mesopotamia, the climate of Mesopotamia is hazard. Summer temperatures range from 110 to 130 degrees Fahrenheit. Eight months out of the year are dry and the Tigris and Euphrates turn to muddy eddies of sluggish brown. The winter is the rainy season no one really knows how much it rains, but they estimate that there was moderately high rainfall. In the spring, melting snows from the Taurus and Zagros Mountains add their waters so that the Tigris and Euphrates flood, often in a destructive manner. When settlers came across Mesopotamia they immediatly wanted to settle in for a couple of reasons. There were two strong rivers for farming, drinking, and bathing. Also, there was very fertile land which was good for farming.====

**Geography**
Mesopotamia was approximately 300 miles long and 150 miles wide. It was located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. These rivers flow into the Persian Gulf. The word Mesopotamia means "The land between the rivers." Mesopotamia was located in a place now call the Middle East, places like Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Turkey, and Iran.

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**Modern Lessons**
In Mesopotamia hunting was key because there were no meat shops, or anything in that matter, people had to hunt for fish, and other animals, just like we do today, the only thing different is that we buy it from a fishery or a meat shop, while others hunt the animals!
 * Hunting**

When history was first written (3100 B.C) normal people ruled the earth, there were no Homo Erectus of any such, there were only Homo Sapiens Sapiens (our human life form.) So we were great farmers, Mesopotamia needed to farm because sometimes it was hard hunting, and sometimes the alpha human would not bring back any food for his family, farming made families have a 100% reliable resource for food, just like we need farming today for vegetables and for a dominant supply of food, of course most of us can afford meat on the table, but vegetables are cheaper and easier to grow (raising cows I mean by and killing them as in "growing") Just like back then we need farming in present time too.
 * Farming**

Mesopotamia's main water source is from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, since these rivers flowed on the border, and through mesopotamia, mesopotamians lived on these rivers for a main water source, and for hunting frogs, fish, lizards, and snakes!
 * Irrigation**

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