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indus - built on mud-brick platforms to protect it from flooding, people know how to read and write, only civilization to have private bathrooms, total rain fall is between 5-20 inches, it stretches across six countries, animals were an important part of the culture, it is mostly used for trading and irrigation, governed by trading not by military.
Mesopotamia - it is the ombining of the tigris and euphrates rivers, land is fertile due to seasonal rains, also called the fertile crescent, hinting was very popular as well as boxing and wrestling, each city was given a certain god, most girls were bought up from childhood to learn the traditional roles of wife, mother housekeepers, flooding was unpredictable, farmers didn't know when to plant or when the flood would be many droughts would make the water level lower, canals were made to carry water from the river to the fields, build dams to hold back flood waters, first 5 city and states - eridu, bad-tibira, larsa, sippar, shuruppak, mud-bricks ere used to build bricks plaster, which crumbled easily making it easy to break into.
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