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 * The Climate and Geography of **

 ×  Hot, dry & windswept  ×  No trees or forestry  ×  Lower Mesopotamia, “the land between two rivers”  ×  Modern Iraq  ×   Plenty water & big reeds grew on river banks  ×  Lower half of Tigris-Euphrates valley  ×  Flooding of Tigris-Euphrates valley violent and irregular  ×  Unpredictable  ×  Country was lush  ×  Surrounding are desolate  ×  Mountains to north and east  ×  Deserts to west  ×  Winter snow melted off mountains ran into river and created random floods  ×  Sumer was south Mesopotamia  ×  Euphrates is longer than Tigris at about 1740 miles in length
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