<span>Mesopotamia's soil was uniquely fertile, which gave humans reason to settle in the region and begin farming. As early as 5,800 B.C.E., people were living in the area known as the "Fertile Crescent" to take advantage of the rich soil. The soil's richness came from runoff from nearby mountains, which regularly deposited nutritious silt onto the river floodplain. This region stretched from modern-day Kuwait and Iraq northward to Turkey. Before the settlement of Mesopotamia, neolithic humans were largely hunters and gatherers who did sporadic farming. Mesopotamia's unique fertility allowed humans to settle in one place to farm</span>
One thing that they promised was that they would be able to cultivate land and have a bunch of crops to sell as exports.
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D Less bureaucracy and decreased representation for the common people
One was in the North, which did not like slavery, and wanted it abolished
the other was the heartland of the Confederacy, and fought for the right to own slaves
