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by deliriumchn 3y ago
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- defrost 3y agohttps://archive.li/U7qET https://archive.li/U7qET The word itself, Mesopotamia, means the land between rivers. It is where the wheel was invented, irrigation flourished and the earliest known system of writing emerged. The rivers here, some scholars say, fed the fabled Hanging Gardens of Babylon and converged at the place described in the Bible as the Garden of Eden. Now, so little water remains in some villages near the Euphrates River that families are dismantling their homes, brick by brick, piling them into pickup trucks — window frames, doors and all — and driving away. ... Four part essay, ~ 20 paragraphs each (+/- a few).
- deliriumchn 3y agoThanks