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Mesopotamia
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By the fourth millennium BC, the Fertile Crescent was not the only region of coalesced communities; organized agricultural, military, religious, and administrative activity had also begun to appear in the Indus Valley, in what is now Pakistan. Even before written records, there is evidence of trade between these two regions. Archaeologists have discovered lamps and cups in Mesopotamia dating from the late fourth millennium BC and made from conch shells found only in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf
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― A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
― A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
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Then the gods realized they must create substitutes for themselves: men. But how? For them to be truly alive, a god must die.
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― La Tavoletta dei Destini
― La Tavoletta dei Destini
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