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Megan in the Mediterranean Sea to the west and Persia to the east between Anatolia to the north and Arabia to the South last the land known to the ancient Greeks as Mesopotamia or the land between the rivers Two Rivers the Tigris and the Euphrates for the base and Mesopotamian civilization like the Nile in Egypt they flowed into the Persian Gulf  Mesopotamia florist from the fourth millennium BC to the 5th Century BC as one of the most advanced societies for three thousand years fully half of History it witnessed the development cephalic streamly important inventions many of which are still used today irrigation is one of the oldest inventions developed in ancient Mesopotamia dating as far back as the 6th millennium BC on a yearly basis the Tigris and the Euphrates swollen with snow melt from upriver with overflow dump fertile silt Liberty for banks  Mesopotamian Engineers within wrote the water from the Euphrates to the Tigris irrigating All of Me Batavia this could be done cuz the alluvial plain was so very flat the Mesopotamians could this accumulate a large Surplus irrigation is awesome Hadley is going to food surplus now however contrary to the Nile which flooded with extreme regularity the tag send to you freydis flooding. Varied in length and strength the Mesopotamian studs developed a more complex irrigation system the Egyptians canals and basins with Doug and the Shadows shortest letter with the counterweight was invented I am a god of his Royal Majesty you are required Con in Aid in the construction of Issaquah. I will follow you but the Mesopotamians faced many problems catastrophic flood in cap indicator play traces of which can be found in the biblical story of Noah's Ark  by far the most important problem however over-salted the rivers were loaded with mineral salts which accumulated in the soil the Mesopotamians did find ways to minimize this for example crop rotation used in salt resistant crops such as barley rather than wheat and flushing the salt off the field with more water are there was no real way to reverse it and intensive agriculture of Mesopotamia lead eventually to widespread soil infertility Goodson food surplus here none the last Mesopotamian agriculture was highly successful permitting a large food surplus in the construction of the first city it resulted in greater specialization since people do not have to worry as much about surviving they could concentrate on other things this the greater human development than ever before the ledge of the inventions and discoveries we will see next little is known of the origins of the wheel but it probably was first made Mesopotamia towards the fourth millennium BC as a working skills of an advanced Nation would be necessary in its construction the presently accepted theory states that the wheel was developed through process settle stats as a means of moving heavy objects around  the first step would have been placing log rolls underneath the heavy check the music more easily  parallel to this sledges were developed to drag heavy objects by combining these two mechanisms heavy objects could be even more easily moved in a sledge of a log rollers the sledges would wear grooves into the log rollers because the circumference of the groove was smaller than the circumference of the log roll the heavy was easier to move Mesopotamians let's fix the log role as to the bottom of the Sledge with pegs to take advantage of this Joyce Woodard invented the wheel and staff the final step was to separate the extremities of the log roller from the middle that way each wheel can spin freely in this car the first Wheels was Saul however since the structure of a horizontal slice of a tree trunk it's not strong enough homemade with rounded vertical boards requiring complicated tools real was first developed Central Asia towards 2000 BC it was introduced in Mesopotamia during nomadic invasions the wheel can still be found everywhere today a testament Ingenuity of its Adventures  it is uncertain whether the people subsided developed the wheel separately or whether it was imported from mashed potatoes but what is certain is that the pre-columbian peoples of Central America never did so crimp in their development the wheel and axle simple machine based on a lever Force the Green Arrow is applied to the effort arm in Orange what should I turn around fulcrum in white and continually lifts the load on in red this explains why the structures mechanically advantageous Twin Rivers you pretty wrong single people series I'm good. visualizing Raymond city of Palmyra in serious one of the world's most important article sites meditate if he's a three-time older than Road Skyline population 34 evidence of something blood with the building civilization bravo bravo with these bricks the Mesopotamians created the world but lost it before and a half thousand years gave mankind it but disease the Mesopotamia Nintendo with Steph but mud with plentiful great match with ideal for growing crops  any type A Matic price to settle in these valleys Cinema 10 a price the time predictable rivet not until I communities at anytime irrigation techniques to control the wolf Mosaic Network in the population grew and grew civilization Boston is Justin posted a million times  these are the voicemails with, north of Damascus night and day face to potholes in the river and looked it up to ask which one Bugatti with the city Master irrigation to build something even more 1 foot box of irrigation the Mesopotamian beautiful wife one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World according to the Greek historian Herodotus rocking in the piston adult free wonderful machine we're going to race them and see which is best. 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