--Lots of points, and picking brainliest.-
1) Why did civilizations begin in river valleys?

2) What are the characteristics of a civilization? Explain how Mesopotamia and Egypt met these criteria.

3) How can the physical geography of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia be described?

4) How do the religious beliefs and world views in Mesopotamia and Egypt reflect the relationships between the environment and the people of these civilizations?

5) Why was it necessary to develop writing before these civilizations could advance?

6) What does the law code of Hammurabi tell us about Babylonian social structure?

7) How does reputation affect the people and rulers of both Mesopotamia and Egypt?

8) Why does Herodotus refer to Egypt as "the Gift of the Nile"?

9) Why were Egypt’s pharaoh’s unusually powerful rulers?

While Mesopotamia's soil was fertile, the region's semiarid climate didn't have much rainfall, with less than ten inches annually. This initially made farming difficult. Two major rivers in the region -- the Tigris and Euphrates -- provided a source of water that enabled wide-scale farming.

Religion was central to Mesopotamians as they believed the divine affected every aspect of human life. Mesopotamians were polytheistic; they worshipped several major gods and thousands of minor gods. Each Mesopotamian city, whether Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian or Assyrian, had its own patron god or goddess.

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28-10-2019

1) Civilizations began near rivers because the water was there allowing them to have the resources they needed to survive (water, grow food, fish, etc)

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