The area of the fertile cresent, between the Tigris and Eurphrates Rivers, was home to various empires calling themselves Sumarian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Persian. The people of the land always assimilated the conquerors, and didn't change much from one empire to another.
The Mesopotamian empires developed the technologies and concepts of the pharmacopoeia, the farmer's alminac, the earliest form of writing in cuneiform writing, the concepts of grammer school, high school, teachers, principals, the bicameral congress, the first litarery epic, The Tales of Gilgamesh, and the first legal code, the Laws of Hammurabi. The Laws were actually based on earlier Sumarian legal systems, but became much more famous than the earlier ones.
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