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Sumerians
What did they accomplish?
Irrigation
Canals
Levees
artificial flood banks
To grow crops, and raise livestock
divert water
Steady production of food
People focused on other things
Division of labor
Basis of advanced civilization
Temples(Ziggurats)
City-States
Common language/culture
king-like-figure (ensi)
Written Language
Record trading
Cuneiform
started from pictures and symbols
Written laws
Enforcing government
Bronze
sturdy
How did they affect the modern society?
Number system
60
Time system
60 minutes
Circle
360 degrees
Wheeled vehicle
probably wagons
Eventually got conquered
absorbed Sumerian culture
Ancient Greeks
Romans
Us
Who were they?
residents of Sumer
one of the oldest civilization
complex systems
social
cultural
political
5300 B.C
Lasted for more than 3000 years
location
Mesopotamia
Iraq
A plain between two rivers
Middle Eastern
Flooded alot
figured out how to control them
Good : Fertile
Bad : Difficult to live