<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/17ef46a2-42f8-4187-ba30-c4bb950bdbb1/7605E6D5-5B12-4DBD-88C8-B0D1DC91F87E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://worldhistory1a.homestead.com/SUMERIA~ns4.html" href="http://worldhistory1a.homestead.com/SUMERIA~ns4.html" style="font-size: 11px;">worldhistory1a.homestead.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worldhistory1a.homestead.com/SUMERIA~ns4.html"><DIV align="left"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, adobe-helvetica, Arial Narrow" size="2" class="Helvetica10">                           </FONT><I><B><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, adobe-helvetica, Arial Narrow" size="5" class="Helvetica18">Mesopotamian Civilization:                                The Land Between the Rivers</FONT></B></I></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worldhistory1a.homestead.com/SUMERIA~ns4.html"><DIV align="left"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, adobe-helvetica, Arial Narrow" size="2" class="Helvetica10">                                                     <FONT class="Times10">          </FONT>SUMERIA</FONT></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://worldhistory1a.homestead.com/SUMERIA~ns4.html"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, adobe-helvetica, Arial Narrow" size="2" class="Helvetica10"><FONT class="Times10">          </FONT>The first true civilization on planet earth (of which we are aware) developed in Mesopotamia, and the people who built this first civilization are known as the Sumerians. 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