The Gift of the Jews

More than five millennia ago, a human hand carved the first written word. This written word started the written history. This first written history occurred in Sumer in the city of Uruk. Uruk was located in ancient Mesopotamia along the Euphrates River. The Sumerians created agriculture fed by canals which greatly lessened their reliance on hunting and gathering so they were able to settle down and stay in one location therefore forming communities.
They soon domesticated flocks and herds for predictable yields of eggs, mil, flesh, leather, and wool. The Sumerians also invented the hoe and later the plow. Among other inventions, they invented wheels, ships, metallurgy, and wheel turned baked pottery. With these inventions Sumer had risen to dominate all of Mesopotamia and began trading as far away as the Nile Valley. The Sumerians even wrote manuals on agriculture and how to brew beer. The Sumerians also had a book that they grouped drawing and descriptions of their Kings in. but all...