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1. It is called the fertile crescent because it is a piece of land rich in soil and crescent in shape.
2. Donkeys were the main source of transportation. The Mesopotamian diet usually consisted of pigs, fish, birds, and wild mammals. Clay was quite obviously used to create pottery for cooking, food storage, and food serving. It was also used to produce a variety of tools, most notably cuneiform inscriptions.
3. Hunter-gatherer groups first settled in Mesopotamia more than 12000 years ago. Over time, these people learned how to plant crops to grow their own food. Every year, floods on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers brought silt, a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks, to the land. The fertile silt made the land ideal for farming.
4. There were three main environmental challenges that the early people of Mesopotamia faced. The first one was that the weather was unpredictable; there would be unpredictable flood, long periods with little to no rain, which made the land like a desert. Another environmental challenge for the people was that natural resources were scarce.
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