FOR ALL OF YOU THAT LIKE PIZZA SHOULD KNOW THIS! Thousands of years ago the Assyrians and the Babylonians made a kind of pizza with oat flour and water. It was only in the 1700's that pizza as we know it came alive. The people of Naples. Italy invented it, and it became very popular there. In 1889. king Umberto and queen Margherita of Italy went to the Naples and tasted a pizza topped with tomatoes and mozzarella cheese. The queen liked it so much that she called the pizza ''pizza Margherita". In the early 1900's immigrant Nepolitans brought pizza with them to the whole world so now you know why pizza is from Italy chow for now!