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Mesopotamia
Some 6.000 years ago, some Neolithic villages became cities as a result of agricultural and commercial prosperity. These civilizations invented writting.
The first great civilizations developed along large rivers surrounded by fertile land:
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Mesopotamia: River Tigris and Euphrates
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India: Indus River
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China: Huang He and Yangtze Rivers
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Egypt: Nile River
The Mesopotamian civilization appeared in the Fertile Crescent, in the fertile plains between River Tigris and River Euphrates
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