Mesopotamia: The World's First Civilisation

Ancient History 3500 BC Ancient 🇮🇶 Iraq 7,991 views

In the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, humanity's first cities, writing system, legal codes, and organised religion were born.

The Cradle of CivilisationMesopotamia — Greek for "land between two rivers" — encompassed the fertile plain of the Tigris and Euphrates in modern Iraq. Beginning around 4000 BCE in southern Mesopotamia (Sumer), human settlement coalesced into urban centres for the first time in history. Cities like ...

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