Mesopotamia was the place where urban life all began in the flat region of the Middle East stretching from eastern Asia Minor to the Persian Gulf . It’s very interesting how these people where able to overcome the drastic obstacles and able to develop unique methods in order to farm successfully. For example digging channels to distribute water during the flooding season. A lot of these methods are still use today. Mesopotamian where able to thrive off the river by using it for farming corps thus food for the people and using the mud for pottery and fishing which was an important part of there diet. The Sumerians discovered how to combine copper and tin to make bronze and used the new material to cast weapons and tool. This was the start of trading among communities and other regions. Around 500 B.C people where starting to develop method to starting finding ways to keep records by writing them on stone and clay tablets Sumerian where first to fully develop a writing system in history. Like the old say goes nothing is written in stone but in this case this ways the case funny. As it shows in the book some of these signs that R.E.D.J.C were us look like some that you would see on x-files with birds and snakes, bug looking signs. The Hammurabi drew up the law code, it was the first completed one in history. This give the courts scents of structure when it came to coming up with penalties for crimes. The Egyptians are to me for the most part interesting people when you see some there temple and vast size of there statues and how stickler they were to details in there architect. The first queen of the New Kingdom was Queen Hatshepsut she was the daughter of Thutmose I she married his son. It’s hard to keep track of all of the inter marriage stuff as we went over in class about how the Egyptian felt that it was very important to keep their blood line in the family as they where look at as God’s. The Hittite mined large quantities of silver, copper and lead which...