Janet Napolitano was born on November 29, 1957, in New York City, the daughter of Jane Marie (nÃ©e Winer) and Leonard Michael Napolitano, who was the dean of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.
Babylon was one of the largest of the Mesopotamian city-states and pioneered several important advances in the ancient world.; a) Architecture: The Babylonians were well-known for their large-scale buildings, such as the Ishtar Gate and the Hanging Gardens. b) Code of Laws: King Hammurabi helped define several modern legal concepts in his ancient code of laws, one of the earliest in human history.
Term Paper for Ancient Mesopotamian History and Culture by Darci Clark. Early forms of record keeping in Mesopotamia led to the development of the first known writing system called cuneiform. A system which used clay tokens was first developed around the eighth millennium BCE. These clay tokens were used to represent individual commodities.