00:00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:05:48 Writing and the Scribal Tradition
00:14:32 Mathematics The Sexagesimal Revolution
00:23:06 Astronomy Watching the Sky as a Science
00:29:16 Medicine The First Clinical Thinking
00:33:50 Agriculture and Engineering
00:41:36 Law Governance and Bureaucracy
00:48:01 Metallurgy Trade and the Bronze Age
00:54:35 The Bigger Picture What the Evidence Tells Us

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Sources and Further Reading

Kramer, Samuel Noah. History Begins at Sumer (1956). University of Pennsylvania Press.
Robson, Eleanor. Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History (2008). Princeton University Press.
Rochberg, Francesca. The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture (2004). Cambridge University Press.
Scurlock, Jo Ann, and Andersen, Burton R. Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine (2005). University of Illinois Press.
Van De Mieroop, Marc. A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000–323 BC (2007). Blackwell.
Postgate, J.N. Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History (1992). Routledge.
Woolley, Leonard. Ur of the Chaldees (1929, revised 1982). Norton.
Dalley, Stephanie. Myths from Mesopotamia (1989). Oxford University Press.
Powell, Marvin A. "Metrology and Mathematics in Ancient Mesopotamia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, Vol. III (1995). Scribner.
Moorey, P.R.S. Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries (1994). Oxford University Press.

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