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Why did Mesopotamia have especially fertile soil

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Because the climate of Mesopotamia was dry with little rainfall, farmers depended on the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for water for their crops. The silt left behind from the flooding water made the soil fertile

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Next to rivers or any kind of water source
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