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The combination of immigrant culture, imported ideas, environmental instability, river taming, and external threat produced Sumerian invention and a mythology based on struggle and achievement.
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"...spreads. Also, because this is a melting pot, it's really an immigrant culture. They're able to bring the most advanced ideas from all around..."
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"They had to develop a new culture, a new mythology based on struggle. Right? The Egyptians can afford to be passive. Okay? They can..."
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Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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