... dropped or buried seeds, and higher availability of the desired foodstuffs, but it was the first step on the very long journey towards modern civilization. Mesopotamia, also known as the Fertile Crescent, was an ideal location for civilization to take root. The Tigris and Euphrates provided not only drinking water, food in the form of fish and a mode of transportation, but did ... ...

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