How Did Mesopotamia Change The World?

Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com - Most scholars agree the ancient Sumerians were the earliest developed civilization in our recorded history. Mesopotamia is, therefore, often characterized as the cradle of civilization, but how exactly did Sumerians change the world?

Ancient people were familiar with art long before the birth of the Sumerian civilization and practiced agriculture around 8,000 B.C. Still, the power of Mesopotamia was that Sumerians took many aspects of human culture and transformed them into what we today call civilization.

The ancient Sumerians, the "black-headed ones," emerged upon the flood plain of the lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers about 4000 B.C., what today is modern Iraq. The Sumerians were by no means the first people on our planet, but they were the first in many areas of expertise. To understand how much we owe the ancient Sumerians, one has to take a quick look at some objects and technology we take for granted today.

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