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A key development of civilization is Mesopotamia was

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Civilization emerged in Mesopotamia because the soil provided a surplus of food. With this surplus people could settle down to village life and with these new settlements, towns and cities began to make their appearance, a process known as urbanization.

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Answer 2

Answer:\ Mesopotamian civilizations formed on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today Iraq and Kuwait.

Early civilizations began to form around the time of the Neolithic Revolution—12000 BCE.

Some of the major Mesopotamian civilizations include the Sumerian, Assyrian, Akkadian, and Babylonian civilizations.

Evidence shows extensive use of technology, literature, legal codes, philosophy, religion, and architecture in these societies. By roughly 6000 to 8000 years ago, agriculture was well under way in several regions including Ancient Egypt, around the Nile River; the Indus Valley civilization; Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; and Ancient China, along the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. This is because the regular river floods made for fertile soil around the banks and the rivers could also supply fresh water to irrigate crops. It’s no coincidence that as agriculture allowed for denser and denser populations along with more specialized societies, some of the world’s first civilizations developed in these areas as well.

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