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What the Ancients Did for Us

What the Ancients Did for Us - Season 1 Episode 6

What the Ancients Did for Us 2005 -

Overview:There has always been a great debate as to who kicked off civilisation: was it the Egyptians, the Greeks or the Romans? Well, actually, none of them did. Human history began in the great alluvial plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, with its rich and immensely fertile soil: a land known as Mesopotamia. The people that dwelled here eight thousand years ago had learned to irrigate the land with canals and ditches, and were keen farmers. From this came plenty, which relieved man of the need to fight for survival. The Assyrian, Babylonian and Sumerian civilisations flourished here in an area stretching from modern Turkey, to western Syria, and Iraq. But what did they do for us? For a start, they invented writing, with the oldest book, the epic of 'Gilgamesh', written around 4,500 years ago. They also gave us the first written laws - apparently to restrain 'drunkenness' in the population; a side effect of another of their innovations, beer. They invented brick, which they produced

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First Air Date: Feb 16, 2005 Last Air date: Apr 13, 2005 Season: 1 Season Episode: 9 Episode Runtime: 60:14 minutes Quality: HD IMDb: 10 / 10 by 0 users Popularity: 1.6759 Language: en

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