Uruk was the world's first city, but, as you can see, many important cities sprung up in Mesopotamia soon thereafter. Why do you suppose this area promoted the founding and development of so many cities?

The second , larger puritan colony of massachusetts bay was conceived as a "city upon a hill". but it also struggled with internal turmoil like the salem witch trials and external conflicts like king philip's (metacom's) war.

His belief that laws designed to the majority would succeed in aiding minorities as well