Natural Syria - Part 2

Where do I begin?
How do I choose the Preferences?
Should it be Ethnic elements or Geography?
What about the infrastructure?
Could it be The Challenges or Responses?
How about Achievements or Developments?
None of the above, yet all of the above.
What makes Syria,,, Syria, is how life chose to expose its Potential through all the above and much more.
Syria, the Natural Environment that offers a variety of Landscapes, Four well defined Seasons, the vast Planes, High Mountains and steeped valleys, Beautiful rivers with extended Green Banks, Pure and angry Skies, Tender and wild winds, Hot, Moderate and Cold Weather,, Heaven on Earth with Rich Resources.
I am not talking here about Oil or Uranium, Gold or Diamonds, Rather about the resources of Fundamental Requirements for Life.
Many Countries have the Same or even better variety of Natural offerings, But it even makes me wonder, how come we do not witness even a slight attempt by their inhabitants thousands of years back in contribution to what we call today Civilization,
Don’t get me wrong here, I am referring to those ages that extend back to 12000 - 9000 years BC, when the early Syrians decided to respond to the challenges of Nature, not by seeking shelter in a cave, but by constructing their own homes, Four walls with a roof, and tiled floors, with an entrance, Walls that meet at a right angle.
What does that mean?
Stability by settlement is the answer, better control over their Lives, an invasion to the world of agriculture when Man was still chasing his instinct for food and shelter, sometime it was a fruitful tree and some others was a wild Boar or a lost Deer.
It takes two to Tango, and Syria had it all, the perfect environment and the right ethnic elements.
The Northern Natural Borders extend from the series of The Taurus Mountains to meet the Zagharos Series at the North East, Joining the Gulf that penetrates the shores of three natural Nations, Persia, Syria and the Arabia, where the Arabia Desert takes over in the south extending to the Red Sea handing over these natural Boundaries to the Sinai Desert followed by the Mediterranean in the west.
What makes these Natural Boundaries so important in the history of Mankind?
The fact that the Life Cycle was embraced within these Borders, at times when means of transportation was so primitive that it could not overcome the desert’s challenge or provide easy access to people from both sides of the mountain’s series to interact easily and freely, Likewise for a fleet of early ships built by the Canaanites to offer an extended life cycle to areas beyond the Sea.
The Sumerians in the south eastern part of Syria were the first to appear in the course of the history of Civilization as an Ethnic Group, followed by the Akkadians, the Assyrians, the Amorites, Canaanites, Arameians, Nabatians, The Nattufians (12000 B.C, with reference to the Nattuf Valley North West of today’s Jerusalem) and many more, those Ethnic Threads that interacted to form the Syrian Natural Human Fabric.

For those who believe in God, it is God’s will to present life in this part of the world,
And for those who believe in Science, it is the perfect match between the two Tango Dancers, The Syrian Natural Habitat and the Syrian Ethnic Elements,
And for those who believe in Both, Syria, The Cradle of Civilization is the Bank of resources that never Dries, The Mother of Inventions and the Star that guides Humanity towards a better Life.

Could that be possible, or maybe there is a lot of Exaggeration in the above statement?

We shall see in Part three.