Mesopotamia : the birthplace of civilization -- Geography of Mesopotamia -- Tigris River -- Euphrates River -- Peoples of the region -- The world's first cities -- Mesopotamian clothing -- Akkad -- Sumerian civilization -- The Sumerian writing system -- Sumerian schools -- Stories of gods and heroes -- The last of the Sumerians -- The first Kingdom of Babylon -- The reign of Hammurabi -- Babylonian language and religion -- The Assyrians and the Chaldeans -- The Kingdom of Assyria -- The Chaldean empire -- Later history of Mesopotamia.