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1. Infrastructure Development

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   Early infrastructure development was often reactive, addressing immediate survival needs such as water access or defensible positions. The city-states of Mesopotamia developed sophisticated irrigation canals by approximately 3500 BCE, primarily to manage the capricious flow of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. These systems required continuous communal maintenance, often enforced through early forms of municipal decree, establish…