Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers’) was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today’s Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey. The 'two rivers' of the name referred to the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and the land was known as 'Al-Jazirah' (the island) by the Arabs referencing what Egyptologist J.H. Breasted would later call the Fertile Crescent, where Mesopotamiancivilization began.
The first ruler of Mauryan Empire was Chandragupta Maurya.
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Answer: A. The Seventeenth Amendment
Explanation:
Before, the Seventeenth Amendment was passed in 1912 by the Congress, state legislatures were the ones who choose senators.
The Seventeenth Amendment modified
that in the Constitution and voters were then allowed to cast direct votes for the senators. U.S.
Therefore, from the options given above, the answer is A.
Sundials and shadow clocks were used during the day. Merkhets were used at night.
The patriot Soldier who captured the then called HMS Serapis is John Paul Jones, who is considered to be the United State's first popular Naval Commander during the American War of Independence. In this battle, Jones fought against Captain Richard Pearson in which he famously said, "I have not yet begun to fight" in response to the surrender.