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The people made villages and civilizations. They spread outward toward Europe. About 3500 B.C. several thousand years after the Agricultural Revolution began and Mesopotamia already had crops growing and very prosperous land. Summer was a land of rivers and swamps with little rainfall, and to live there, the local farmers relied on irrigation. What began the rise to civilization was a change in the local climate, which became slightly colder and drier about 3500 B.C. High ranking women came to occupy many of the positions of command over lower-ranking man that they would fill in later civilized societies, but the upper ranks had their own forms of inequity that also had a long history ahead of them. As the Sumerian civilization grew they made gods and goddesses  they were holy, inspiring love and fear in humans because there was nothing that did not depend on them such as storms and war and abundance of fields.