WOH 2012 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 - Mesopotamia
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The climate began to get warmer which melted glaciers and caused the sea levels to rise and caused many waterways throughout the globe as well as forests. Natufians: hunter-gathers of the near and middle east. Younger dryas event: glacial melt water burst into the atlantic gulf. Stream causing cooler and drier conditions: food and water disappeared causing natufians to congregate in small groups changing from hunting and gathering to planting and domestication. Levantine corridor: where the first farming settlements of the near. East appeared and an arc of land that had a high-water table: jericho was the first settlement in the valley of the tigris and. Irrigation emerges in mesopotamia causing a food surplus that enabled them to engage in regional trade and manufacturing. Sumeria: world"s first urban civilization: supported by irrigation in farming and trade, created competing city-states with a population of 8 to 10 thousand, largest mesopotamian city-states: eridu, lagash, ur, and.
