A handful of seeds sketch the first borders of power. By the Tigris, a farmer presses barley into damp soil. Hunger keeps the calendar. As domesticated plants and animals anchor families to one place, villages harden into towns along the Euphrates and the Nile. With fixed homes come granaries, then walls, and finally, leaders. In a river town, wet clay receives careful marks. Writing makes mem...
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