Environment in Ancient MesopotamiaThe environment of Ancient Mesopotamia (or "The land between the rivers") made people in the stone age's lives difficult. The northern part was hilly, and the southern part was a flat land. Mesopotamia is located in the Fertile Crescent in between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers (hence the nickname). There was little rain making the soil hard and dry, but rivers brought water during flood season. There were plenty of weeds, not many trees to get wood from, and stones were scarce. There were four major problems with living in Ancient Mesopotamia: food shortages in the hills, an uncontrolled water supply in the plains, difficulties building and maintaining a system of providing water across villages, and attacks from neighboring villages. But luckily there were solutions to these problems: people moved to where the rivers flooded because it brought good soil to farm, people created irrigation systems, and people built walls and moats to protect their village. These solutions are what made it possible to live in Ancient Mesopotamia, and some of these solutions even made their way into the 21st century.
Fun Fact:The farms were built outside of the protective walls, so when other villages attacked the farmers would have to run inside the walls for protection.
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