1. (Religious answer) Because Abraham wouldn't worship false idols with his nephew, so he and his wife Sarah, left to settle in a different land which happened to be in the fertile crescent.
2. Because being close to the rivers and the floods made good farm land.
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Baldassare Castiglione wrote the Book of the Courtier from 1508 until it was published in 1528. (B).