The world's first civilization, Mesopotamia, featuring its city-states, cuneiform script, and code of law.
Do you know where the world's very first civilization began? It was right here, in the fertile land between two rivers: Mesopotamia!The Sumerians settled in the fertile lands along the rivers and built the world's first city-states, centered around massive stepped temples called 'ziggurats'!As cities grew and trade expanded, people began carving wedge-shaped symbols onto clay tablets using reed styluses. This became the world's first writing system!As large groups of people gathered to live together, they needed fair and strict laws that everyone had to follow. This laid the foundation for the state.The most famous of these is Babylonia's Code of Hammurabi, known for the rule 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.' It was carved onto stone pillars for everyone to see.The cities, writing, and laws that began in Mesopotamia thousands of years ago have become the strong roots of our modern civilization. See you on our next historical journey!▶ Read interactively
