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The Sumerians


             In the region that is now iraq the tigris and euphates rivers flow side by side for more than 1,000 miles . between these two great rivers lies a firtle valley. The ancient Greeks called this valley Mesoptamia wich means land between the rivers. this rich vally forms the eastern part of the fertile cresent. The fertile crescent is a strip of rich , well watered land that extends in a great arch from the cost of the Mediterranean sea to the persain golf. Many of the ideas of western civilization began in this region and many of the plants and animals we have today were first demesticated there.
             People began to move into mesopotamia at a very early time. They settled at the lower end of the vally where the rivers empty into the Persian golf. They called their land sumer. The sumerians, the people of sumer were among the first people to leave a written record. .
             By about 4,000 bc the sumerians were living in large villages, with buildings made of sundried mud brick. By about 3,000 they had become prosperous enough to develope cities, these cities included Uruk,Nippur,Ur, and Lagash.
             Sumerian society: As the food supply became more plentiful,not everyone was needed to work in the feilds. Large number of people were free to work at other jobs. They became carpenters,potters,metal workers,stone carvers and religious leaders. Gradually, they developed new and more speacalized skills. During the height of the sumarian civilization, there were boat builders, scribes who kept written records,jewlers,and people who made tools and weopens of bronze. There were also many traders.
             Sumerian inventions: As it's height sumerian society was very complex,wealthy,and powerful. Among the greatest works of the sumearians were their huge temples and the inventions of a system of writting. The writting system invented by the sumearians is called cuneiforn writting. It was probly the greatest invention by the sumerians.


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