Most of the buildings in lower Mesopotamia were made of mud brick. They did not have trees for large spaces of stone quarry or metal resources.
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After some time, the kings united regions and cities which were adjacent in order to extend their wealth and to get more power. Sometimes, they made war to expand their territories. This way kings became very powerful and prospered in forming large empires.
As kings extended their lands, they needed to build a state building that guaranteed their dominance and power. So they selected governors and formed bodies of civil servants. The governors held organizational and military functions in the farthermost provinces, and the civil servants who could inscribe, read and count, were in control of accumulating taxes. In dissimilar places, civil servants were named different names; for instance, mandarins in China, and scribes in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
The relations between the residents grew into more complicated and to control them the first programs of law were created. One example is the program of Hammurabi in Mesopotamia. The necessity for other legal papers also improved, such as contracts, receipts, judgements, wills and many