Mesopotamia: Humans & Environment

I have traveled through the area in between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers known as Mesopotamia for around two years, and have witnessed a great variation in cultural beliefs, customs, and environmental interaction. Though throughout the duration in my stay in Mesopotamia one civilization has received much of my attention, the Sumerians. They maintain high interaction with the Tigris and Euphrates river basin which spawned the first civilization, starting a long period of innovation, farming, and construction of amazing structures called ziggurats. I have never seen such structures in my life, other than these massive temples to the gods and king. The Sumerians have started a long tradition of agrarian life styles that interact with their environment to retrieve food that I can't see ending for thousands of years. It is no wonder that they chose this perfect environment, and started forming a stable population in the presence of a massive fertile area. 

This article covers key theme one, patterns of population, because it depicts people moving to Mesopotamia and covers why they moved.  

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