beccamonster44 's review for:

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek

3.0

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While I thought that this was an excellent introduction to Mesopotamian history, it was also incredibly tangential, which made it difficult to follow. I learned way more about the soviet occupation of Russia and the world wars than one would ever expect from a book that was advertised to be a history about the fertile crescent.