Mesopotamian, Egyptian Civilization

Mesopotamian civilization was located in the southern Tigris-Euphrates region of Sumer. They had many city-states and each city-state had their own king. Eighty percent of the Sumer people lived in the city-states. Sumerian people were vulnerable to outside forces and then other people from Northern Mesopotamia conquered them later. Egyptian civilization began around 3100 B.C. They had several earlier states which unified territory that stretched 1,000 miles along the Nile river.