It's hard to cover about 8,000 years in roughly 15 minutes, but let's try. This is a quick refresher video for those of you interested in the history of ancient Mesopotamia. Topics included are the end of the last ice age, the Sumerians, Sargon the Great and the Akkadian Empire, Assyrians, Hittites, Babylonian and a few of the other major civilizations of early Mesopotamia.