Question

Helped form the "Fertile Crescent" and the Sumerian civilization.

· Over 1,730 miles long and characterized by annual flooding.
· Headwaters are located in Turkey, empties into the Persian Gulf.

Which Middle East geographic feature is being described?

Answer 1

The Tigris and Euphrates

Step-by-step explanation:

The Tigris and Euphrates form the Fertile Crescent, an area that the Greeks called Mesopotamia or "land between the rivers."

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Answer 2

The Euphrates river

Step-by-step explanation:

Along with the Tigris, the Euphrates river helped form the Fertile Crescent and the Sumerian civilization.

It starts where the Karasu and Murat rivers merge in eastern Turkey and continues southeasterly for 2800 km (1740 mi) through Syria and Iraq until it merges with the Tigris river at Al-Qurnah. There, it becomes the Shatt al-Arab waterway and empties into the Persian Gulf.