My Malice and Bias

In the arid, desolate sands of Mecca , surrounded by the bare mountains of the Arabian desert, stands a small cubic structure that the ancient and modern Arabs refer to as the Kaaba : the Cube.  The Kaaba The Kaaba is a square, roofless structure made of unmortared stones in a valley of sand. Its four walls were so low it is said a young goat could leap over them and birds would shit on it due to the open top. The structure is now decorated with coverings of cloth. At its base, two small doors are chiseled into the gray stone, allowing entry into the inner sanctum.  Hajj Pilgrimmage at Kaaba Inside the Kaaba, the gods of pre-Islamic Arabia used to reside. In all, there are said to be 360 idols housed in and around the Kaaba, representing every god recognized in the Arabian Peninsula. Near the Kaaba was a well called Zamzam , fed by an underground spring. The spring situated in the middle of the arid desert became a sacred place for the thisty Bedouin nomads of Arabia. Ancient Structure

Sumerians Sumer (/ˈsuːmər/) is ne of the earliest known civilization from southern Mesopotamia (south-central Iraq) around 3500 to 2000 BCE,  It is the first urban civilizations in the world, along with the Indus Valley civilization that is emerging as older than Sumrians based on recent genetic studies. Origin Roughly 10,000 years ago, villages started popping up across Mesopotamia . The people who lived in the region raised animals and grew grains, even as they continued to hunt and gather. By the 7th century BC small farming settlements of people were established. Over time, those villages expanded leading to the first of Mesopotamian towns called Eridu and Uruk .  River Based Civilization Geography Mesopotamia is Greek for ‘a land between two rivers’  Tigris and Euphrates. Living along the valleys of the two rivers, Sumerian farmers grew an abundance of grain and other crops, the surplus from which enabled them to form urban settlements. Ironically, the Greek name for  Punjab  was