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By Nicholas Postgate

The roots of our smooth international lie within the civilization of Mesopotamia, which observed the improvement of the 1st city society and the discovery of writing. The cuneiform texts display the technological and social strategies of Sumer and Babylonia as unusually glossy, and the impact of this interesting tradition was once felt in the course of the close to East. Early Mesopotamia supplies a wholly new account, integrating the archaeology with historic facts which beforehand were principally scattered in professional literature.

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