> Irrigation, sanitation and water-systems were invented in Mesopotamia (as were cities)

This is sort of like saying computers were invented in Mesopotamia because they did math.

Roman water and earth-moving civil engineering was absolutely cutting edge to the degree that the projects they undertook would have been unfathomable to their Bronze-Age predecessors.

> Medicine/education, that's the Greeks

Egyptians, Shirley?

(Although they're such abstract concepts, I'm sure everyone had them to some degree).