Sorry it took so long. I had mentioned that I had one more idea to go for RP. It needed some more research, but the research got drawn out, then even more drawn out. I'll follow this post with one about the various inventions I've uncovered, then put off the rest of the research till after a factual topic gets put up for it, assuming it even gets picked as a topic.

The basic idea is to RP through all the inventions and discoveries that were made in western Asia. There is room for a great deal of humor in this one. One of the main theories describing how the processing of copper ore into copper metal involved the making of pottery. It was normal for ancient potters to press pretty stones into the pot before firing it. When the science of building kilns got to be advanced enough to raise the temperature high enough to process the ore, the beautiful azurite and malachite stones pressed into them would have dissappeared from the pots and there would be a puddle of molten copper at the bottom of the kiln. If your pretty stones had dissappeared, would you look suspiciously about you at the surrounding people? If you had found molten copper at the bottom of a kiln, would you suspect the intervention of a god? When somebody discovers and explains the unusual movements of planets in the night skies, might it not have been while on a moonlight stroll with a sweetie.

It has been theorized that so many inventions were made in Mesopotamia as compared to Egypt because Egypt was so protected from invasion (deserts can be a bit dificult for massive armies to cross). Mesopotamia's fertile plains weren't a problem to cross, nor were the fairly low mountains as Mesopotamia was invaded from every direction on the compass and some of those directions were used a multitude of times. The reasoning behind the theory was that all the danger made people insecure and desperate to produce the greatest technology with which to keep the land strong. Whether it's an accurate theory or not, the list is becoming unmanageable.