Around the late Fourth and early Third millennium BC a new invention, the Bronze Age State, was created simultaneously in Egypt, Mesopotamia, China and the Aegean Sea. These social, political and economic mammoths forever changed the life of Mankind. 

Join us in this first episode of our miniseries "The Roots of Liberty - The Three Civilizations that Unshackled Man" as we observe the birthplace Bronze Age State - Mesopotamia.

(Art: Ishtar, goddess of warfare and love, an Akkadian seal. Date and artist unknown)