The land between the rivers.
The fertile crescent.
The cradle of civilization.
The birthplace of the blues.
The Bronze Age.
The Information Age.
The Age of Innocence.
The Age of Invention.
Sun-dried mud bricks.
Reeds taken from the river.
It is where the world’s first cities arose.
It is where opera was invented.
It is where the first law code was written.
It is where people first farmed.
60 minutes in an hour.
360 degrees in a circle.
Mesopotamians were the first to understand algorithms.
24 hours in a day.
The wheel, the sailboat, and frying pans.
Razors, cosmetic sets, and shepherd’s pipes.
Harps, bronze hand tools, and the plow.
The plow seeder, a working battery, and the first written language.
Agriculture, mathematics, and government.
Sumer, Babylon, Assyria.
Gilgamesh, Hammurabi, Humbaba.
Assyria, Babylon, Sumer.
Babylon, Sumer, Assyria.