> Irrigation, sanitation and water-systems were invented in Mesopotamia (as were cities) This is sort of like saying computers were invented in Mesopotamia bec

> Irrigation, sanitation and water-systems were invented in Mesopotamia (as were cities) This is sort of like saying computers were invented in Mesopotamia because they did math. Roman water and earth-moving civil engineering was absolutely cutting edge to the degree that the projects they undertook would have been unfathomable to their Bronze-Age predecessors.