Mesopotamia:

- One of the earliest civilization.

- “Cradle of Civilization”
or “The Fertile Crescent”

- Greek: “The Land Between
Rivers”

- Positioned between the Tigris
and Euphrates.

- Focus on Sumer, located
south of Akkad. (of(first to create potions, and some healing potions and
defensive potions in the world)

- Strong potions were so wild and
potent, when archaeologist found an amulet tained with the magic, (several
thousand years later), they ended up in St. Mungo’s for over three months.

- They often worshiped those they
saw using magic as gods, when in reality most of them were wizards and witches.

- Epic of Gilgamesh was the
fifth king of Uruk and is often described as two-thirds god, one-third man. He
was in fact a wizard.

- Archaeologist and Potioneer Akim
Malaam found the remnants of some very weak immortality potion that is
currently being studied by Mr. Malaam at the Iraqi Institute of Potioneering
and Magical Medicine.

- Gilgamesh is also said to have
fought a beast known as the Huwawa (or as your book inaccurately calls
it the Humbaba). This beast can now, with some certainty, be known as the Hungarian
Horntail Primari.

- Ja'mam Biba, who was a
Muggle woman living in Babylon, wrote what is known as the Letter of
Severance (where several of her teeth were pulled from her mouth and her
eyes were gauged out of her head by a man who never touched her).This act lead to the creation of
the Hammurabi Code (eye for eye, tooth for tooth)

- At the same time mass murder of
many magical people in Akkad and Babylon was commonplace. Whereas those
to the south revered their magical brothers as seers and mystics and heroes,
those to the north feared and killed them.

Phoenicia:

- Phoenicia is the culture that
came up with the Proto-Canaanite Alphabet.

- Phoenicians used magical woods in many of their boats, as
they were a well known maritime power, and traders. Their boats were
protected by charms and enhanced by these magical wood (without them knowing).

- In Egypt spells were found that
dated back to Byblos (a Phoenician city), one such spell was one that
read "rir-rir or wal lat ick nur geg".

- This spell's introduction
suggests it would have done something similar to Vipera Evanesca (snake
banishing).

- It is doubtful that the
Phoenicians ever created wands, suggesting that these spells were meant to be
performed wandlessly.

- The spells were formulated by
priests in Byblos, but appeared in Egypt a few decades later, suggesting
interaction between the two magical communities.

Indus River Valley:

- The Indus were a highly magical
group of people (almost 80% of their artifacts hold some sort of magical
powers).

- While at and around this time we
see magic in much more sporadic and wild forms, the magic of those in this area
seemed concentrated and well tuned.

- Professor Quilmane bought a
bracelet enchanted with a primitive cheering charm.

- In this time the caste system was
just starting and those with magical abilities often found themselves on the
top most tiers(A group of magical priests or Brahmin known as the B'ha-Rahi
Brotherhood).These brothers protected the
villagers from the Lahoo Vampires for decades.

- Lahsun, a Chieftain of the
B'ha-Rahi, most well known as "The Divine One", is known for his
extreme disdain for vampire kind. He fought and killed many of the
vampires and taught the villagers ways to protect themselves, including the use
of garlic, and wooden stakes.

- Lahsun considered himself to be a
god but he was indeed a wizard, and perhaps one of the earliest great wizards
of this area.