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descibe any two geographical features of mesopotamia

Answer 1

The main geographical feature of Mesopotamia are:____

☆☆☆Land between two rivers - are, of course, the two rivers: Euphrates (to the west) and Tigris (to the east).

They flow from hills and mountains, down to marshland in the south, then into the Persian Gulf. The area is therefore prone to flooding, which gave rise to the famous Gilgamesh flood myth.

☆☆☆Overland routes in Mesopotamia usually follow the Euphrates because the banks of the Tigris are frequently steep and difficult. The climate of the region is semi-arid with a vast desert expanse in the north which gives way to a 15,000 square kilometres (5,800 sq mi) region of marshes, lagoons, mud flats, and reed banks in the south.

Answer 2

The main geographical features of Mesopotamia - land between two rivers - are, of course, the two rivers: Euphrates (to the west) and Tigris (to the east).

They flow from hills and mountains, down to marshland in the south, then into the Persian Gulf. The area is therefore prone to flooding, which gave rise to the famous Gilgamesh flood myth.

Floating village of Marsh Arabs near Nasiriya:

Overland routes in Mesopotamia usually follow the Euphrates because the banks of the Tigris are frequently steep and difficult. The climate of the region is semi-arid with a vast desert expanse in the north which gives way to a 15,000 square kilometres (5,800 sq mi) region of marshes, lagoons, mud flats, and reed banks in the south.

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Will Scathlocke

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Answered Jun 15

It is very, very flat:

So much so, in fact, that to get hills, people needed to build them:

This is the Ziggurat of Ur (mostly reconstructed) from which the previous picture was taken. (For any speaker of German reading this, by the way, it should be “die Ziggurat”.) The landscape is largely devoid of trees. The chief building material traditionally was, well, mud — baked to brick. What did they use as fuel for fires if there were no trees?

Fuel was provided by the efforts of Bossy: