More densely populated, deeply interconnected with Africa across the Sinai, Europe through the Ice Ages-era land bridge over the Dardanelles Strait, and other parts of Asia, the Fertile Crescent featured ideal conditions for people to find themselves in a position to lord over others, and build wonderful structures of inherited power.
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