Use this World History and Western Heritage video entitled The Birth of Civilization to study the course of Western civilization, from its birth in the ancient Near East to the present day. Learn about the key steps to the development of civilization involved the transition of organized groups of humans from hunter-gatherers to food producer. Discover the movement of peoples into the river valleys of the ancient Near East was the primary stimulus to the formation of cities and Mesopotamia, "the land between the rivers," was the first river valley civilization where written language and law developed in response to difficult and dynamic conditions.
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