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Answer the following question in 3-4 complete sentences.

A map of the Fertile Crescent showing two rivers running through it.
Name the two rivers that run through the Fertile Crescent. How were the rivers both positive and negative to societies of the Fertile Crescent?

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The two rivers are the Tigris and the Euphrates. Their annual floods deposited rich silt and, together with irrigation, made the land extremely fertile, enabling surplus food production, urban growth, and trade. However, the rivers were unpredictable and could flood violently or shift course, destroying homes and crops, and periods of drought or water shortage could cause hardship. To manage these dangers communities built canals, levees, and irrigation systems, which helped agriculture but also promoted centralized authority and social organization.