I believe the answer is: Became a meeting place for people and ideas The fertile crescent refer to the the region where early human civilizations started be agriculturally successful due to its close proximity with the nile river. This make this area became the trading centres in the continents, which make many people from different civilziations come, meet, and exchange their cultures/knowledge
They had better weapons and also because they developed the chariot. Even though the chariot is thought of as Greek, Roman or Egyptian, it is actually the Hittites that it originally came from.
The conservatives were against big government and the welfare state which had resulted in huge taxation in order to support the welfare programs such as those of the Great Society. Instead they wanted low taxation and limited government
