• people in the fertile crescent had the best crops
• the city of dwar 
• dwar is 9000 years old, 25000 years older than draa
• a few hundred people lived in dwar
• clothes and plaster were able to be made
• people over farmed the fertile crescent and moved east and west
• populations exploded when they reached Egypt and other parts of Europe and Asia.
• anywhere on earth that has the same line of latitude is similar
• the Europeans brought cattle to the new land
• there are now 100 million cattle in america
• Americans consume 20 million tons of cattle every year.