What attracted people to the area of Mesopotamia?

Answer 1

The land of Mesopotamia is known as "the land between two rivers". The rivers that surround Mesopotamia are the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. Because of this, the soil in the land became fertile, nicknaming it the fertile crescent. The fertile land was rich soil, which attracted many people.

Answer 2

Contemporary Iraq occupies the territory that historians traditionally have considered the site of the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East. Geographically, modern Iraq corresponds to the Mesopotamia of the Old Testament and of other, older, Near Eastern texts. The Akkadians were a Semitic people, that is, they spoke a Semitic language related to languages such as Hebrew and Arabic. When the two peoples clashed, the Sumerians gradually lost control over the city-states they had so brilliantly created and fell under the hegemony of the Akkadian kingdom which was based in Akkad, the city that was later to become Babylon. In the south of this region, in an area now in Kuwait and northern Saudi Arabia, a mysterious group of people, speaking a language unrelated to any other human language we know of, began to live in cities, which were ruled by some sort of monarch, and began to write. These were the Sumerians, and around 3000 BC they began to form large city-states in southern Mesopotamia that controlled areas of several hundred square miles. The names of these cities speak from a distant and foggy past: Ur, Lagash, Eridu. These Sumerians were constantly at war with one another and other peoples, for water were a scarce and valuable resource. The result over time of these wars was the growth of larger city-states as the more powerful swallowed up the smaller city-states. Eventually, the Sumerians would have to battle another peoples, the Akkadians, who migrated up from the Arabian Peninsula.

Answer 3

Because of this, the soil in the land became fertile, nicknaming it the fertile crescent. The fertile land was rich soil, which attracted many people.

Answer 4

It had rich soil which was good for planting. Since it had no natural barriers, attackers were attracted even more at the easy invasion

Answer 5

I believe it was a target of conquest because it was between the tigris and euphates rivers so farming would be much easier.

Answer 6

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