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Article: Fertile crescent. (economic relationship between Alaska and the Puget Sound region)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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The long standing relationship between Alaska and the Puget Sound region blossoms once more as the personal business computer comes of age.
Archaeologists tell us of the beginnings of civilization in a land called Mesopotamia. It lay where the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers formed a vast, rich plain where city-states thrived and writing first appeared, extending the concept of communication beyond that of the spoken word. Historians have dubbed the region "the fertile crescent."
Written communication was probably the most dramatic tool for change in history, advancing the whole of human knowledge millions of times over by enabling people to share, ...