HOW THE HUMAN NEEDS EVOLVING INTO SDGS – MIRACLE OF THE RIVERS

Abstract. Over 7000 years ago, great civilizations started by settlements around the great rivers of the Near East. One of them is the Area called Mesopotamia. The region is broadly defined to include now eastern Syria, south-eastern Turkey, and Iraq. In the narrow sense, Mesopotamia is between Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The world of mathematics and astronomy owes much to the Babylonians—for instance, the sexagesimal system for the calculation of time and angles, which is still practical because of the multiple divisibility of the number 60; the Greek day of 12 "double-hours"; and the zodiac and its signs. The region was the center of a culture whose influence extended throughout the Middle East and the Indus Valley, Fare East, Egypt, and the Mediterranean.
In this paper, we will describe how different cultures ate influenced by the Mesopotamian civilization and their way of Life in harmony with Nature and, later, how we had to take care of our current needs in compliance with Nature.