Location between two rivers ideal for farming, Mesopotamia, importance practice to keep fertile soil moist to produce surplus of food, irrigation, area depended on trade due to poor soil conditions, Phenicia, Factors that united early civilizations, trade and irrigation, early forms of writing, cuneiform and pictographs, symbol or image writing , pictographs, Phoenicia developed this writing, alphabet (22), bronze, made tools stronger for more complex building projects, ziggurat, pyramid shaped temple tower for the gods, important for Sumerians for they believed gods controlled natural events, religion, 282 daily laws that were written so all could see, Hammurabis code, city and area round it, city-state, Land of different territories under single ruler, empire, made society more productive since people could specialize in their jobs, division of labor, first to establish a world empire, Sargon.

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