Both Jessica and Elizabeth stated, that the key aspects of life in the Indus River Valleys were the results of new technology like the wheel and also the new forms of urban living came about. I agree with them that these creations allowed the civilizations to prosper in those times.

However, after reading chapters one through three I believe that although new technology and and innovations in both the Indus river valleys and Mesopotamia. But, so was the creation of irrigation systems that brought water to the plants from the water they received from the melting mountain snow and monsoons in the Indus river valleys. They developed an innovation that allowed them to survive in the conditions they had been faced with and prosper from it. While