Shipping technologies and cultures were more readily shared
Natural resources made people be able to live their life and it all had to do with their geography
After looking at the photograph given above, one sedimentary rock that probably metamorphosed to form rock on unit 6 is called limestone. You can also use the sedimentary rock called dolostone. Both will be acceptable answers to this question.
Why might a post classical civilization want to conquer Egypt and the Nile River Valley? It's fertile land provided the foundation for the first human civilizations and its access to the Persian Gulf and location between Europe, Asia, and Africa made it a center of trade.