Hello, everybody. Today we're gonna talk about how and where the first footwear originated. So, during the cassette period from 1600 to 1200 BC. In Mesopotamia, soft shoes were introduced to the people by the mountain people on the border of Iran who ruled Babylonia at that time. The first type of shoe was a simple wraparound of leather with the basic construction of a macasian, which was held together on the foot with raw hide lacings