People lived in mesopotaimia before city states by living in tribes as a village or community
9 is an odd multiple of 6
English, Chinese, French, Japanese, are a few that come to mind, If you are talking about Imperialistic Great Britian and France during the Age of Imperialism. I'm not sure about all of those other ones, except Latin was I'm sure dead around that age.
B] Order and stability
Both doctrines call for order and stability
. Daoism: natural order
Confucianism: societal order