The creation of allowed humans to shift from a nomadic lifestyle to a more settlement-based lifestyle with domesticated plants and livestock.
The first-known cities in Mesopotamia developed around .
The Phoenicians relied heavily on to obtain resources.
Around 3500 BCE, metal workers discovered an alloy of copper and tin known as that made it ideal to use for tools and weapons.
Sumerians developed , a form of writing used to keep track of business transactions and later, expressed more complicated ideas such as the poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The were a group of early humans that developed the alphabet of 22 symbols, which would later be adopted by other cultures throughout the world.
Respond to the following based on your reading.

In what ways might a governmental system with established and uniform laws such as Hammurabi’s Code be more helpful to a society than a system without definite laws?