Mesopotamia

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“Yikes!”

~ Jon Stewart on Mesopotamia

“If a slave insults the fineland that is Mesopotamia, his owner must give him 42 lashings or mighty Shamash will strike out his tongue with a bolt of sky-fire. If a free man insults it, he will be fined two shekels. My house, my rules.”

~ Hammurabi on Mesopotamia

“Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh”

~ Ken Jennings on The Mesopotamians

Mesopotamia is often, erroneously, referred to as the birthplace of civilization. Civilization doesn't know it was adopted.

[edit] Etymology

The word Mesopotamia is believed to come from ancient greek Μεσ' ο' Ποταμια, roughly translated as a heck of a lot of hippopotami. Greeks deny this, claiming they weren't even there when the last of these lovely animals died 65 million years ago. Their theory is that it in fact means Garden of Eden, from meso (olde Arabyc русский), eden, and potamia (modern parlance wesaþ hāl), copious quantities of pots. Some say the name means "flying bananas." You want to be a historian? No? Then shut up.

[edit] History

Began here.