Mesopotamian Boats
By: Rocio
- Mesopotamians had three different types of boats
- 1. Was the Guffa which was shaped like a bowl
- 2.Was the kaliku which was inflated with animal skins
- 3.Was a boat with a triangular shaped sail
- Those were the boats that the Mesopotamians used and made.
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Sumerian's Improvement
By: Amber O.
- One importance in the Summerian's life was that they had the biggest city state.
- Second, they improved in farming and writing, they also had really strong kings that helped improve in their technology.
- Chambray was a very strict ruler which helped in Sumerian technology.
Clay making
- The Sumerians used a lot of clay to build their cities and houses.
- They used it to make bricks which they baked, and made the city ziggurats with.
- This is what separated the Sumerians apart from other civilizations.
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Farming Technology
- This square is about hunters that stopped hunting and became farmers. They made their homes into permanent shelters, instead of the nomadic tents.
- They were all assigned different jobs and that was when the social classes first started.
- In the lowest class, there were the slaves and the farmers.
- In the middle class were the traders and the craftsmen, and in the highest class is the priests, soldiers and kings.
- all these jobs were very important to all the city states.
- Over time, they became better at farming and got better resources, and they also made compacted ziggurats over time.
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Wealth In the City-States
By: Amber O.
- The Sumerians city state's wealth increased.
- Even their system of writing developed. Not everyone learned how to write, read or learn about mathmatics.
- Over the years, their writing got more complex from pictograph to complex writing with a triangular shape so it would be easier to press into the clay cubes.
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The Early Civilization
- The early colonization of Mesopotamia included the Sumerians and the Babylonian empires
- These two areas provided the earliest known examples of many basic technologies, such as pottery and glass making.
- Both had developed an agricultural system in which strike controlled irrigation played a cultural role. (????)
- The system of pictographs was introduced shortly after.
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