Mesopotamia is also known as "The Land Between the Two rivers."(Tigris and Euphrates)Mesopotamia was also part of the larger region called the Fertile Crescent,this fertile land is in the shape of a large curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.The Fertile Crescent is where the world's first farming Communities started.

Many people believed that people called sumerians had migrated to mesopotamia thousands of years ago.When the land they settled in they had called it Sumer,Mesopotamia had gave them good fertile soil to use for farming,fertile soil is also known as silt down from the mountains.When the river had flooded their banks,the river water had silt that would spread across the plains,but when the flood water would stop it would leave a fresh layer of rich soil.The sumerians also had challenges when farming like how most of their region was a desert,so with no rain for many months the plants would wither and die.Also,with heavy floods the villages would be swept away with the flooding water.