Maybe you should write that down. And these two rivers, the land in between it is pretty groovy, man. Pretty good land that you're going to want to settle on because it is fertile. Once a year both of these rivers flood and when the water washes away it leaves what's called silt, which is very moist, awesome soil that you can grow lots of barley, lots of wheat, fill your granary, fill your belly and have a good civilization. How about that, kids? So Mesopotamia is a rather large area and as we move forward we're really going to be focusing on the Sumerians, which is closer on the eastern side of Mesopotamia as they're going to build city-states and one of the earliest civilizations. Are you ready to start a civilization?