The land river-made ,and therefore has no minerals whatever and almost no stone.
Except for the huge reeds in the marshes,it had no trees for timber.
Here,then was a region with "the hand of God against it," an unpromising land seemingly doomed to poverty and desolation.
But the people that inhabited, the sumerian,as they came to do known by the third millennium B.C. were endowed with an unusually creative intellect and a venturesome, resolute spirit.
In spite of the land's natural drawbacks,they turned Sumer into a veriable Garden of Eden and developed what was probably first high civilization in the history of man.