The Domino Effect As Wanda Sykes, American actress, singer, and writer once said, “My worlds collide. When one thing happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.” In other words, when the domino effect occurs, when one event influences a chain of one or more events to occur. This is similar to the impact regional geography made on the development of a civilization. In other words, regional geography created a domino effect of the development of various civilizations. For example, the development of the Mesopotamian Civilization was majorly impact by the regional geography. It is important to note that Mesopotamia is known as the birthplace of civilization. Historians believe that between 4,000 B.C.E. and 3,000 …show more content…
Mesopotamia’s soil was fertile, which was uncommon, thus allowing humans a reason to settle in the region and begin farming. At the start of 5,800 B.C.E., people were living in this area known as the Fertile Crescent, taking advantage of the rich soil. The runoff from nearby mountains, regularly deposited nutritious silt onto the river floodplain, causing the richness in the soil. The Fertile Crescent region spanned from modern-day Kuwait and Iraq and northward to Turkey. Neolithic humans were mainly hunters and gatherers who did sporadic farming, before the settlement of Mesopotamia. The uncommon fertile land of Mesopotamia allowed humans to settle in one place to farm. Not only was Mesopotamia’s soil fertile, but the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers also played a major role in the regional geography that affected how the Mesopotamian development. The region of Mesopotamia had a semiarid climate, which didn’t receive a lot of rainfall, with less than ten inches per year. As a result, this made farming difficult. However, the Tigris and Euphrates, two major rivers in the region, provided a source of water that enabled wide-scale farming. The Mesopotamian Civilization received the ability to stretch the river’s water into farm