Mesopotamia is introduced as a wealthy, multiethnic trade center where conflict is constant but religious taboos originally limit city-state destruction.
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Religious Taboo
Mesopotamia is introduced as a wealthy, multiethnic trade center where conflict is constant but religious taboos originally limit city-state destruction.
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"become the basis of a new religion, will become the basis of a new religion, that will come to dominate the world called Christianity...."
"...incur the wrath of the god. Okay? So there are these religious taboos that keep the system in check."
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