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that survives to this day. The name Mesopotamia is the Greek for "the land between the rivers," and refers to "the geographic region which lies near the Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers" (Demand, 2000). The name refers to the location rather than to the civilization, since several civilizations rose and fell in that area over the course of the centuries (Demand,
2000). Like Egypt, Mesopotamia is made fertile by the yearly flooding of the two rivers, which is a mixed blessing; the flood waters added "rich silt" to the soil each
year, but it took a "tremendous amount of human labor to successfully irrigate the land and to protect the young plants from the surging flood waters" (Demand, 2000). Because
of the fertility of the soil as well as the need for humans to work it, it is not particularly surprising that Mesopotamia is the site where the first civilization
arose (Demand, 2000). The roots of the civilization lie in the southern part of the land; the people are called the Sumerians (Demand, 2000). By 3500 BCE, the Sumerian civilization
had developed many of the characteristics that would appear in later societies, including towns that had become cities, a form of writing, rudimentary metal working, and huge temples built to
various gods (Demand, 2000). The greatest contribution to the development of true civilization, however, occurred around 3100 BCE, with the "development of cuneiform writing" (Demand, 2000). This type of writing,
which was characterized by marks made in wet clay tablets, was used for over 2000 years (Demand, 2000). The Sumerians thus were a hard-working, largely agricultural civilization that contained within
it the seeds of the later civilizations that would rise in its place. There are some hundreds of tablets extant that describe the treatments of the time (most of the
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