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From the information given in the passage aboui the Tigris and Euphrates, we learn that

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   the Euphrates is shorter but deeper than the Tigris
   
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   each river once had its own outlet to the open sea
   
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   the Euphrates is longer and of more commercial use
   
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   the rivers have always joined near the Persian Gulf to form a swamp
   
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   more ancient cities were situated on the banks of the Euphrates than the Tigris
   

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   According to the passage, the Tigris River
   

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   has been fought over by the Assyrians, the Macedonians, the Parthians and the Iraqis
   
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   flows into Lake Van in eastern Turkey
   
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   has, since the dawn of civilization, provided sites for important settlements
   
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   has been overused for irrigation, resulting in large swamps
   
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   is only navigable by small boats
   

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   It is clear from the passage that the people living in the area between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
   

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   are direct descendants of the Assyrians
   
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   are generally nomads
   
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   live mainly on fish
   
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   live high up in the mountains
   
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   use the river water for agriculture
   

165 JAMES HARGREAVES
The obscurity of James Hargreaves's life contrasts sharply with the worldwide influence of his invention, a yam-spinning machine called the spinning jenny. Almost nothing is known of his life. He was probably born in Blackburn in Lancashire, England. While still a boy, he became a carpenter and spinner in Standhill, a village nearby. At that time Lancashire was the centre of England's manufacture of cotton goods. The industry was still confined to workers' homes, however, and the cards, spinning wheels and looms were operated by hand. It is said that an accident gave Hargreaves the idea for his spinning jenny. In his crowded cottage, which served him both as home and workshop, he was experimenting with spinning two threads at one time. His experiments were unsuccessful, however, because the horizontal spindles allowed the threads to fly apart and become tangled. After his daughter Jenny overturned the experimental machine and its wheel continued to revolve with the spindles in a vertical position, it occurred to Hargreaves that a machine with spindles in this position might be successful. He proceeded to build a spinning machine, probably in 1764, that would spin eight threads at the same time. He called his new invention, after his daughter, a spinning jenny.

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