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    15 Things Everyone Who Grew Up In Mesopotamia Understands

    Comin Straight Outta Assur!

    1. Catching up with friends down at the ziggurat

    2. No school for three months because it's flooding season!

    3. That feeling when you steal something and now you're all like "oh great now I need to get my hand cut off lol thanks Hammurabi"

    4. Only being friends with people who are totally caught up on their Epic of Gilgamesh tablets

    5. Rollin your eyes when dudes tryna talk about sowing they seeds in ur fertile crescent cuz like bitch I'm FROM the fertile crecent lmfao

    6. Best part about inventing the system of taxes? They help create a stable society. Worst part about inventing taxes? You have to pay them :(

    7. Cuneiform that shit good as fuck

    8. Eating a mash of barley and wheat ALL DAY EVERY DAY. But you know you wouldn't trade it for the world <3

    9. Trying to buy an ox from a dude who only speaks Sumerian

    10. Getting home for break and having to go to temple with your parents to pray to Marduk

    11. Are you a Tigres or a Euphrates? You don't even have to think about the answer to this one ;)

    12. When you find out the guy you went home with is actually a Persian

    13. MUD-BRICKS. MUD-BRICKS EVERYWHERE.

    14. When people ask you where you come from, you say, "oh nowhere JUST THE CRADLE OF MOTHERFUCKING CIVILIZATION!!!!!!!!"

    15. Knowing that you can take the girl out of Mesopotamia, but you can't take the Mesopotamia out of the girl :)