What factors made it especially
difficult to farm in the northern
plateau of Mesopotamia?

C. rocky, infertile soil.

Explanation:

although mesopotamia had fertile soil, farming wasn't easy there. the region received little rain. this meant that the water levels in the tigris and euphrates rivers depended on how much rain fell in eastern asia minor where the two rivers began.

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the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire