Tigris+and+Euphrates+Rivers

=Tigris And Euphrates= Tigris: Tigris is the northern river; or the right one just to be specific. The Tigris river is near the of places are Assur and Nimrud. The Tigirs is bigger then the Euphrates river. Tigris is the farthest from egypt, and the mediterranen sea. The Tigirs river is very very important to the mesopotamian people.

Euphrates
The Euphrates river is on the left side of mesopotamia. The city- states near the Euphrates rivers include Ur and Babylon.

The Tigris and Euphrates river flooded every year and killed everyone that did not know it was coming. So they invented levees. Levees are a tall wall of dirt so the water would not kill anyone.

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers helped Mesopotamia by providing water, fish and other creatures of the water, bathwater, irrigation, water for there crops and transportaion. If they did not have the Tigris and Euphrates river life would be as hard to find as a needle in a hay stack. Did you know Mesopotamia means land between two rivers? Hammurabi won wars by cutting this water away from the rivers of his enemies.

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