Rivers · Writing · First Cities
+25 XP on completionFind Mesopotamia on a map. It sits between two rivers — the Tigris and Euphrates — in the region of modern-day Iraq. The name Mesopotamia means land between rivers, and those rivers made farming, travel, and cities possible.
Sumer was one of the earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia. People there built cities, farmed using river water, created systems of government, traded goods, and developed cuneiform — one of the world's first writing systems. These inventions helped humans organize bigger communities.
Write 2–3 sentences about what surprised you most about Mesopotamia. Think like an explorer: what detail made you stop and look closer?