Traditions and Encounters-Chapter 2 notes
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Sima Hasan 7-27-12 Period 4 Chapter 2: Early Societies in Southwest Asia and the Indo-European Migrations pg.33-58 Thesis: Productive agrarian economies helped develop some of the world?s first complex societies that many people lived in and extended their influence over large areas. The Quest for Order Over time, Mesopotamia developed methods of organizing their society. Because of this, they were able to build large empires and gain control of neighboring territories. Human population increased rapidly in Mesopotamia Through experimentation, eventually controlled their society Built regional empires and extended their authority to neighboring peoples Mesopotamia: ?The Land between the Rivers? Mesopotamia: ?the land between the rivers? Has Tigris and Euphrates rivers