writing on page 12, I read that writing started out as a way to view ownership on items, business deals, and government. sumerians were the first to use a system of writing, pictographs was the first writing system, which then evolved into cuneiform. in the text it says "
location on page 6 it said that Mesopotamia is located in what is today Iraq and Syria turkey and Iran. according to the Greeks Mesopotamia means land between two rivers also the text states that Mesopotamia had cooler mountainous region in northern region and reed filled wetlands in the southeast (Steele 6) 