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This modern-day country contains the giant stone arch Taq Kasra near the riverside town (10[1])of Taq Kasra. This is the southernmost country the Great Zab river flows through as it passes near the Neanderthal site Shanidar (10[1])Cave. This is the westernmost country in which mashoof canoes (10[1]-5[1])are used by Ahwaris or Marsh Arabs, (10[2])who were targeted (10[1])by this (-5[1])country’s (10[1])minority (10[2])Sunni government (10[4])in (10[1])the 1990s. (10[8]-5[3])In this modern-day country, (10[3]-5[2])a river supposedly (10[1])ran black with ink (10[8]-5[1])after (10[3])a (10[2])Mongol (10[8]-5[1])attack (10[12])destroyed (10[6])the “House (10[2])of Wisdom.” (10[14]-5[3])This (10[1])country’s (10[2])city (10[2]-5[1])of (10[3])Basra (10[2]-5[1])is (10[1])located near the Shatt (10[2])al-Arab’s (10[2])mouth on the Persian Gulf. For 10 points, the Tigris flows (10[2])through what country’s capital of (10[1])Baghdad? (10[2])■END■ (10[8]0[1])

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