The earliest cites

In class we continue to discuss the land of Mesopotamia. This land was a place between two rivers, the Tigers and Euphrates. Another thing that was talk about was the population increasing due to the irrigation techniques. Some of the cities have 40,000 inhabitants. Another piece of information that we talked about is how Sumerians invented the earliest form of writing. Another interesting fact about them is that they created a calender biased on the cycles of moon. Another thing that we talk about in class was Hammurabi codes and these codes were the most vicious laws of the time back then. Laws such as having your hand cut off if stealing.