It always potentially a desert, but the earlier inhabitants created large irrigation works, which watered the river flood plains and made them productive. Their successors and nomadic invaders over the millennia destroyed much of this irrigation, so the fertile land progressively shrank.
The Desert Barren (The Desert Road)
It got its name because it was a huge, barren desert.
Because the heat causes vegetation to struggle with growth
Maine has no true deserts. It does have a small area of barren silt uncovered during the last ice age but it only resembles a desert superficially.
Mesopotamia is now Iraq. =)
The desert was barren.
The Desert Barren (The Desert Road)
No a desert is a barren flat land.
A sentence using the word barren is:The desert was barren except for some rocks and the occasional scorpion.Thanks Deb:)
Arid barren land is known as a desert, though the Antarctic (land of snow and ice) is also classed as a desert.
Although some deserts are dry, barren, desolate places, the definition of desert only requires it to have little precipitation.A better term for such a particularly barren area is a wasteland.
a dry barren region that may be sandy and without trees. A desert.
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Desert like Barren Land
A desert is a dry, hot, sandy, usually barren and uninhabited area.
The desert receives virtually no rainfall which is needed for plants to flourish.
a Desert