Hellenistic culture is the greek like culture
Answer:
The Mesopotamian's worshiped many gods because each god was labeled to something different .
"Religion was central to Mesopotamian's as they believed the divine affected every aspect of human life".
The quote is from https://www.historyonthenet.com/mesopotamian-religion
What gave them an advantage is economic prosperity due to rich soil and development of plantations based on slave labor. Many profit was accumulated from crops (tobacco) and also cotton. Later on in the 1800s when Eli Whitney created the cotton gin it created a boom in the slave industry and increased largely by 71%. After that the tool allowed mass production in textile industries.