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Mesopotamia is roughly the region now known as Iraq, one of the places where civilization first started (in the form of city states.) "Meso" means "middle" or "between" and "potamia" refers to rivers; Mesopotamia is the area in and around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This is not a coincidence; other places where early civilizations began also were around rivers (such as the Nile or Indus Valley civilizations) because people needed an agricultural surplus in order to build cities and engage in other, specialized activities.

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