<span>Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers') was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today's Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.</span>
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Southerners approved the Dred Scott decision believing Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in the territories. ... Overall, the Dred Scott decision had the effect of widening the political and social gap between North and South and took the nation closer to the brink of Civil War.
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The Supreme Court also ruled that Congress could not stop slavery in the newly emerging territories and declared the Missouri Compromise of 1820 to be unconstitutional. The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery north of the parallel 36°30´ in the Louisiana Purchase. The Court declared it violated the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution which prohibits Congress from depriving persons of their property without due process of law.
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Compare the emergence of advanced Civilizations in Mesopotamia and South America with the four early river valley Civilizations. In contrast to the leaders of Mesopotamia Civilizations, Native American leaders lived in tribes and did not depend so much on agriculture like was the case of the early river valley civilizations that depending so much on the flooding of the rivers to have fertile soil in order to grow crops.
Native American leaders did not found city-states. They established tribes that lived hunting animals and fishing, so they could feed their families.