A Brief History of Urak

The history of writing begins with rain falling on the pontic and southern taurus mountains in present day turkey. These mountains are home to the headwaters of the euphrates, which runs 17 hundred miles across syria and iroc. Out of these fusions of wet lands and desert arose the world's first cities. One of these cities, a sprawling metropolis by bronze age standards, was called urak. The inhabitants of urak didn't have much usable wood nor stone. They had mardy reeds, narrow leafed cat tails, date palms,. In drier regions, mesquite and a kind of tamarisk plant. And eroding them into a usable sediment was the