ARCH 100 Chapter 11: Chapter 11 Readings
12 May 2016
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Mesopotamia: a region along the course of the tigris and euphrates rivers centered in modern iraq. The heartland is in southern iraq, where two rivers flow into the arabian gulf: however, it also extends to the north into syria and turkey and to the east into iran. Documents that include the earliest epics and legal systems in the world have been recovered: the earliest stages of state formation appear to have been focused in southern. Tigris and euphrates rivers: two large rivers that were the focus for the development of. Flow through a geological depression formed where the arabian shield ploughs into and under the asian shield: this powerful geological process has pushed up the zagros mountain chain that runs along the eastern edge of the tigris floodplain. As they flow they deposit their load of waterborne silts on the valley floor. There are three important consequences of the geological position of mesopotamia:
