Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization

Eridu and Other Towns in the Ubaid Period (1x4)

Air date: Jan 01, 2018

The Ubaid people constructed the earliest monumental buildings, standardized some measurements, and must have had some sort of formal leadership to care for and control their populations. See how the people of the Ubaid coordinated their efforts to develop irrigation systems, despite a lack of written language.