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The earliest cities mesopotamia 

• The district known as sumer occupied the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers 
• population increased dramatically due to new irrigation techniques
• Cities and towns were founded, some with as many as 40,000 inhabitants 
• better storage allowed for diversity 

More on mesopotamia 

• The ziggurat was a sumerian temple built on top of a mountain of earth

A mess o' mesopotamia 

civilization in mesopotamia 

• Domesticated animals 
• King hummurabi of babylon created a series of laws known as "Hammurabi Code"

Mesopotamia- The expansion 

• Indo-Europeans were people from the grassland of the Russian sleppe who introduced the horse to the Near East 
• The warlike Indo-Europeans tribe known as the Hittites settled in Asia 
• The Hittites had a lucrative trade in metals and conquered nearly all of their neighbors