Euphrates
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Definition
(noun.) a river in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf; was important in the development of several great civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia.
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Examples
- The first civilizations in Egypt and the Euphrates-Tigris valley probably developed directly out of this widespread culture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This lower country of the Euphrates-Tigris valleys had little or no stone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ne vertheless, if you seek the very origins of the sciences, you will inevitably be drawn to the banks of the Nile, and to the valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- De Candolle asserts that it is only in the Euphrates-Tigris district that wheat has ever been found growing wild. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Among the mud heaps of the Euphrates-Tigris valley the record of that vast period of history, that first half of the Age of Cultivation, is buried. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are also still used on the Euphrates, and on the Towy in South Wales. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He crossed the Euphrates, expecting to find in Persia another Hellenized kingdom like Pontus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Inflated skins may have preceded the coracle, and are still used on the Euphrates and upper Ganges. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then when Necho, after pushing as far as the Euphrates, fell before Nebuchadnezzar II, Judah fell with him (604 B.C.). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Sassanids repeatedly carried war into the Byzantine Empire, and held the line of the Euphrates steadfastly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Romans had been held at the Euphrates by an array of mounted archers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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