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contained, competing with neighbors for Early urbanism in northern
good land and water as well as access to Mesopotamia. (2019, August
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Early urbanization and the
comprised of numerous towns, villages,
hydraulic environment. (n.d.).
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expansion of cities lent credence to the
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methods that benefited from the Tigris and
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transformations gave rise to early complex
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Owing to social stratification and the
Euphrates rivers' closeness, these homes civilizations which was essentially the result
creation of various socioeconomic strata.
helped create farming communities. The of commoners producing a social surplus,
Targon was socially diverse, with extensive
agricultural revolution necessitated large- which allowed for the establishment of
occupational specialization and significant
scale water management, which political distinction and the complicated
wealth and power disparities between an
demanded organized planning and division of labor. The emergence of various
elite class and the rest of the populace. A
leadership, which meant centralized social strata and the process of social
rigid hierarchy established itself. The land-
settlement. According to the hydraulic stratification therefore officially began.
owning aristocracy, which included nobles,
theory, a civilization is defined by
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intensified agriculture, a certain distribution of the surplus. Following that,
distribution of work, and extensive professionals such as artisans,
cooperation. The concentration of metallurgists, and scribes were hired to
agriculture allowed for an influx of monitor the surplus. The poor, helpless
population and interdependence, which in peasants were at the bottom, bearing the
turn created a demand for leaders who weight of the entire economy.
could assert authority over others.