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| This is a map of major cities founded throughout history along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. This region has gone by many names over the centuries-Sumer, Mesopotamia, the Fertile Crescent, etc. Today, it is the sovereign state of Iraq. |
I find it fascinating that so much history has occurred in this area. While the political, economic, and social pinnacle of each individual place might be separated by hundreds, maybe thousands of years, they aren't that far away. So much history here overlaps in a long epic of human activity.
