What the Ancients Did for Us

Where to Watch What the Ancients Did for Us Season 1 Episode 6 Online Free - The Mesopotamians

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What the Ancients Did for Us is a documentary series that first aired on February 16, 2005 on BBC Two. The series stars Adam Hart-Davis and Marty Jopson. So far it spans 1 season and 9 episodes and its current status is "Ended". Season 1 has 9 episodes, and episode 6 originally aired on March 23, 2005 with a runtime of about 1h 0m. The show holds a 7.0/10 rating on TMDB.

What happens in "The Mesopotamians": 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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Episode 6 of Season 1 ("The Mesopotamians") first aired on March 23, 2005.

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