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Mesopotamia: the land between rivers

About six thousand years ago, great cities rose between the Tigris and Euphrates, in today's Iraq, Kuwait, and northeastern Syria.

Civilization followed water.

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Pyramids, ziggurats, massive armies, and sophisticated writing emerged where water was abundant, not in Canaan with its modest springs.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 21

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