Technology in Mesopotamia / Samuels, Charlie

It's probable that the ancient people in Mesopotamia were the first to use the wheel for transportation around 3200 BC. If that's not impressive enough, the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon were dreamed up and executed by this ancient culture.

Examines important technological improvements in ancient Mesopotamia, what is now called Iraq, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, from around 3500 B.C.E. to about 331 B.C.E., in the fields of construction, irrigation, pottery, the wheel, numbers, weights, measures, astronomy, a written language, metals, weapons, and more.