Land between the rivers -- Water supply : canals, irrigation and aqueducts -- Challenges of food production -- Weaving -- Pottery and its many uses -- The wheel -- Metals and metalworking -- Craftsmen : glass, stone, and jewels -- Construction materials -- Arrangement of homes -- Building cities -- Ziggurats -- On the move in Mesopotamia -- Mathematics, weights, and measures -- Astronomy and astrology -- Treating the sick -- Advances in warfare -- The first writers -- Gifts from the Cradle of Civilization -- Glossary.