Mesopotamia. Currently the country occupying this area is Iraq.
Mesopotamia, from the Greek words meso = between, potamos = river.
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is called the Fertile Crescent.
Tigris and Euphrates rivers gave mesopatamia its name
Mesopotamia is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Sumerians learned to control the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers by constructing levees and irrigation canals.
Mesopotamia! Sumer!
"Mesopotamia" literally means "land between the rivers," in this case between the Tigris and Euphrates river. Mesopotamia (and I suppose its rivers, too) is in current day Iraq.
Mesopotamia (the land between the two rivers).
Mesopotamia (the land between the two rivers).
Turkey, Syria, and Iran. The land between the Tigris and the Euphrates was known as Mesopotamia in ancient times, or "Between two rivers."
Mesopotamian (means land in-between the rivers) a+ ;)
Mesopotamia means "land between the two RIVERS" not "land between the two SEAS". The two rivers that Mesopotamia sits between are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. However, the region of Mesopotamia sits between the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Black, and the Caspian Sea (though does not occupy all of the land in that area).
Today Mesopotamia is roughly the country of Iraq. In ancient times it was "the land between the rivers", that is, the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Mesopotamia or "The Fertile Crescent"