1. The Tigris - is one of the two main rivers of Mesopotamia(modern Iraq).

The Tigris is the river

to the east (towards Persia [modern Iran]); theEuphrates, to the west. The Tigris runs from Lake
Hazar, in the Taurus Mountains, in Turkey, joins the Euphrates, and flows into the Persian Gulf.
The Encyclopedia Britannica says the Tigris is 1,180 miles (1,900 km) in length. Irrigation
through seven millennia has changed the course of the river.
2.

The Euphrates - is one of the two rivers of Mesopotamia. The Euphrates is the river on the
west. The Tigris is the one to the east. The Euphrates is formed from the Karasu and the Murat
rivers in the high Armenian plateau, runs through the Taurus Mountains, crosses into Syria at
Carchemish, joins the Tigris, and flows into the Persian Gulf. Today its length is 1,740 miles
(2,800 km) according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. It has changed substantially over the last
7000 years, especially because of irrigation. The Euphrates formed a boundary of Syria-Palestine
in Biblical times.

3. The Indus River - also called Sindhu River is one of the longest rivers in Asia. It flows
through Pakistan, the state of Jammu and Kashmir and western Tibet (China). Originating in
the Tibetan Plateau in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar, the river runs a course through
the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, towards Gilgit-Baltistan and then flows in a southerly
direction along the entire length of Pakistan to merge into the Arabian Sea near the port city
of Karachi in Sindh. The total length of the river is 3,180 km (1,980 mi). It is Pakistan's longest
river.
The
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mentioned
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the Vedic Rigveda as Sapta Sindhu and the Iranian Zend Avesta as Hapta Hindu (both terms
meaning "seven rivers"). The river has been a source of wonder since the Classical Period, with
King Darius of Persia sending his Greek subject Scylax of Caryanda to explore the river as early
as 510 BC.
4. The Yellow River or Huang He - is the third-longest river in Asia, following the Yangtze

River and Yenisei River, and the sixth-longest in the world at the estimated length of 5,464 km
(3,395 mi).[1] Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghaiprovince of western China, it
flows through nine provinces, and it empties into the Bohai Sea near the city
of Dongying inShandong province. The Yellow River basin has an eastwest extent of about
1,900 kilometers (1,180 mi) and a northsouth extent of about 1,100 km (680 mi). Its total basin
area is about 742,443 square kilometers (286,659 sq mi).The Yellow River is called "the cradle
of Chinese civilization", because its basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization, and
it was the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. However, frequent
devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed (due
in part to manmade erosion upstream), sometimes above the level of its surrounding farm fields,
has also earned it the unenviable names China's Sorrow and Scourge of the Sons of Han.