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**Mesopotamia (greek for "the land between 2 rivers")
- one of the first places that the government was created.
- located between 2 rivers: tigres and the euphrates
- made baskets from the weeds of the river
- there were lots of floods from the mountains
- the rivers could change courses and then the farmer would have to adapt to that
-Culture
- had about 3 thousand gods. one in each city
- way of writing: wrote in clay
-Religion
- everything that they believed in was based on nature
-Geography
- bordering countries: Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria
- many people settled there for the great water
- great soil
- few trees, little rain fall
- trade their supplies for stone, wood, and metal
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