So beer drinking was one of the things that reminded theSumerians that they were different from the people of the past who hadn't had any of the trappings of modern life.
Man battled the elements in Mesopotamia, and the desert and its ways of plunder and raiding pushed against urban life, but the land gave rise to powerful kingdoms: the Assyrians, the Babylonians, theSumerians, the Abbasids.
An Iraqi has never won one of the 841 total Olympic boxing medals despite their claim of boxing as the Ancient Sumerians created carvings depicting boxers in 3000 BC.