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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.

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Q: Why is Mesopotamia now a barren desert?
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