Why do we say that it was not natural fertility and high levels of food productions that were the causes of early urbanisation?

Which of the following were necessary conditions and which the causes, of early urbanisation, and which would you say were the outcome of the growth of cities:

(a) highly productive agriculture, (b) water transport, (c) the lack of metal and stone, (d) the division of labour, (e) the use of seals, (f) the military power of kings that made labour compulsory?

Why were mobile animal herders not necessarily a threat to town life?

Why would the early temple have been much like a house?

Of the new institutions that came into being once city life had begun, which would have depended on the initiative of the king?

What do ancient stories tell us about the civilisation of Mesopotamia?