TCP/IP, transmission control protocol/internet protocol - a set of protocols (including TCP) developed for the internet in the 1970s to get data from one network device to another. etiquette - rules governing socially acceptable behavior.
The Early Dynastic period was brought to an end when Sargon (2334-2279) created the world's first empire, stretching the length and breadth of the fertile crescent. The impact of Sargon's unification of Sumer and Akkad resonated down through the history of Mesopotamia for the next two thousand years.
The first civilizations were the River Valley civs, such as Yellow River, Tigris & Euphrates, the Nile, and the Indus civilizations. The first of these three was the Tigris & Euphrates civ, which was called Sumer. The Tigris & Euphrates are in modern day Iraq.