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In ancient times, Iraq was the site of the ancient cililzation of Mesopotamia, which is regarded as being the “birthplace of civilization,” while ancient Egypt’s complex society followed closely on its heels.

Its heels, its refers to?

A

Mesopotamian civilization

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Mesopotamia lay between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, and early Mesopotamians are credited with inventing intricate systems of irrigation that brought the waters of these two rivers into the interior for farming.

In Egypt, the Nile River served much the same purpose
Same purpose refers to?
-building aqueduct
-irrigating the farmland

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Irrigating the farmland

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Although The Epic of Gilgamesh remains significant as the first known example of fiction writing in the world, the Mesopotamians also recorded a number of religious and cultural myths around this same time, many of which influenced the writing of later texts such as the Bible

  • The epic of Gilgamesh may have inspired future religious texts, but the other writings of Mesopotamia were just as important.
  • Mesopotamians wrote a number of very influential religious texts in addition to the famous Epic of Gilgamesh.
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-Mesopotamians wrote a number of very influential religious texts in addition to the famous Epic of Gilgamesh.

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