Pioneered Many Technologies

The Mesopotamians were the first to create and use diverse metals in metallurgy alone. Bronze and iron are among them, as well as valuable metals like gold and silver. The Assyrians are even credited with being the first civilization to establish an empire based on technological dominance, particularly their use of iron armor and weapons. This gave them an advantage over their neighbors, who continued to employ weaker and softer bronze for weapons and armor. This is one of the interesting facts about the ancient Mesopotamian civilization.

Mesopotamians also invented glassmaking and cloth weaving, as well as one of the world's most complicated irrigation systems. The network of canals and aqueducts they built was so intricate that they continued in service until the Mongol invasions destroyed them millennia later. And they proved to be so complicated that no one knew how to reconstruct the devastated old infrastructure once the Mongols were defeated.