Preface for a Peace Corps Handbook

Civilization began quite long ago with a group of people called the Sumerians, who lived in Mesopotamia. Nobody knows where the Sumerians came from. Nobody knows where they went, either, for that matter. But they were around, at least for a while.

The Sumerians weren’t really civilized. They had very few wars, and even then they could only kill each other off one at a time. But they tried. It wasn’t much, but it was a start.