1. trade,transportation,technology
1.1. the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countrie
1.1.1. What materials did they trade
1.1.1.1. Trade was vital to Ancient Rome. The empire cost a vast sum of money to run and trade brought in much of that money. The population of the city of Rome was one million and such a vast population required all manner of things brought back via trade.
1.1.2. Why?
1.1.2.1. trade was vital to Ancient Rome. The empire cost a vast sum of money to run and trade brought in much of that money. The population of the city of Rome was one million and such a vast population required all manner of things brought back via trade.
1.1.2.1.1. bulla
1.2. the act of transportin
1.3. the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science
2. material adaptations
2.1. the act of adapting.
2.1.1. Irrigation Systems
2.1.1.1. Irrigation is the artificial application of water to the land or soil. It is used to assist in the growing of agricultural crops, maintenance of landscapes, and revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall.
2.1.1.2. a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network; a complex whole.
2.1.2. mixing copper with tin to make bronze.
2.2. Materials used for building
2.2.1. material used for constructing building
2.2.1.1. plow
2.2.1.1.1. 1. an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil
2.2.1.2. wheel
2.2.1.2.1. a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
2.2.1.3. sailboat
2.2.1.3.1. a boat having sails as its principal means of propulsion.
3. physical enviroment
3.1. of or relating to the body.
3.1.1. plateau
3.1.1.1. Image result for plateauwilderness.org In geology and earth science, a plateau (/pləˈtoʊ/ or /ˈplætoʊ/; plural plateaus or plateaux), also called a high plain or tableland, is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain that is raised significantly above the surrounding area, often with one or more sides with steep slopes
3.1.2. plain
3.1.2.1. not decorated or elaborate; simple or basic in character.
3.2. the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings; milieu
3.2.1. riversLarry (Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg) 1923–2002, U.S. painter.
3.2.1.1. The Tigris is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq and empties itself into the Persian Gulf.
3.2.1.2. The Euphrates is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia.
4. social and political systems
4.1. relating to society or its organization
4.1.1. farmers
4.1.1.1. a person who owns or manages a farm.
4.1.2. specialized workers
4.1.2.1. Someone or something that is specialized is trained or developed for a particular purpose or area of knowledge.
4.1.3. Artisan
4.1.3.1. a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
4.2. along or together with as well as in addition to besides also moreover.
4.3. of, relating to, or concerned with politics .
4.4. an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole.
4.4.1. city states
4.4.1.1. a state consisting of a sovereign city and its dependencies. Among the most famous are the great independent cities of the ancient world, such as Athens, Sparta, Carthage, Thebes, Corinth, and Rome.
4.4.2. mesptoamia is a region
4.4.2.1. Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers’) was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today’s Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey. The 'two rivers' of the name referred to the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and the land was known as 'Al-Jazirah' (the island) by the Arabs referencing what Egyptologist J.H. Breasted would later call the Fertile Crescent, where Mesopotamian civilization began.