MESOPOTAMIA: "CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION"
MESOPOTAMIA: "CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION" "" Modern day Mesopotamian Mesopotamia was an ancient civilization. It lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers . The fertile plain is also known as the " Cradle of Civilization ". Mesopotamia is known as the cradle of civilization because it was the site of many crucial early developments. Mesopotamia: Cradle of civilization, birthplace of writing, astronomy , and law , flourished between 4,000 and 3,100 BC. Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers') was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean, bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau , corresponding to modern-day Iraq and parts of Iran, Syria, Kuwait, and Turkey and known as the Fertile Crescent and the Cradle of Civilization . Mesopot...