Gods always take the best land. So they stayed in the forest paradise. But as numbers increased, their followers traveled further down the rivers. And that changed everything.

The northern culture was ancient and stable, but the southern culture was always changing. So the gods could rule by saying "it was always so." But the southerners had to keep track of who lived where and who owned what.

The river banks had plenty of clay, so the southerners made marks in it. And thus, they invented writing.

Writing let a man control other people at a distance, just like the gods. But with writing, there was no limit to memory. A man could know more than the gods!!

These men called their land "Sumer" meaning "land of the civilised kings". For now they still obeyed the gods, because the gods controlled nature. But the gods' days were numbered.

Should I ask how the gods control nature? Or get back to the problem of defeating Gilgamesh? Or do something else?