... but had comparable economies. The Mesopotamians had kings, priests, nobles, artisans, merchants, and slaves to make up their population. In Mesopotamia, they had job specialization such as farmers, merchants, scribes, metallurgist, craftsmen, and political leaders. Each job was very important because each supplied different things like crops, trade, written records, tools and weapons, art, and order within city-states ... there were many similarities between the economies. The cultures of the two empires differed greatly but both societies produced many new inventions. The Mesopotamians ...

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... like building irrigation systems. Even though the priest was important, the people of Ancient Mesopotamia known as the Sumerians were very accomplished. The Sumerians developed a system of writing known as cuneiform. In cuneiform, a pointed stick called the stylus was used to form wedge shaped impressions on clay tablets. These wedge shaped impressions represented syllables that formed words when joined together. By using ... long distances. Since writing was developed, boys were able to go to school. They attended school from five to seventeen years old and when their education was com...

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... do it. The deeds of kings, political records, and property lines were the first major things that needed to be recorded. Like the Egyptians, the Sumerians used the art of "cuneiform" to write. The writing was evolved from pictures, which were baked on clay tablets. These pictures were eventually turned into symbols and transformed into phonetic elements. This form of writing ... , cuneiform was very hard to learn because there were so many different symbols and sounds for everything. Writing eventually was like the turning point in societies during the early Mesopotamian civilizations. ...

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