The highest concentration of cities probably emerged along the two rivers the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers. This would have happened because of the large amount of fertile soil by those two rivers.
<em>"The Fertile Crescent"</em>, a region in what we now know as <em>The Middle East</em> or <em>Western Asia</em>, where the historical Mesopotamian civilization developed, was shaped by the basin of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; this region comprises the modern territories of <em>Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Southern Turkey, wester Iran</em> and <em>Egypt.</em>
<em>The Sumerians are </em>the first community considered to inhabit the region.
The Supreme Court interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment very narrowly, stating that the federal government could not prosecute individuals for discriminatory acts. Lynching's and mob violence were left to the states to handle. Within a generation after the end of Reconstruction 1877
