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The ancient Mesopotamians created tools to help them with challenges they faced from nature and predators. (The image above is a model of an ancient plow, which the Mesopotamian people created to make farming easier.)

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Why Technology was the Most Influential Characteristic of Civilization in Mesopotamia 

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Why Technology was the Most Influential Characteristic of Civilization in Mesopotamia 

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Technology was the most influential characteristic because the mesopotamian people were often challenged by nature, and had to build things that would help them survive. During times when there was flooding, drought, or heat waves, the mesopotamians had to invent new solutions to their problems that would help them whenever something came up. I also think this because whenever they were threatened, they created new things to aid their survival.

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Skinner Middle School, West 40th Avenue, Denver, CO

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“Their crops were sometimes affected by drought, floods, and heat, but the Sumerians were resilient and invented solutions to many of these problems. For example, they built canals to control water flow and levees to protect crops from flooding.”

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This shows that because the ancient mesopotamians needed different technologies to survive, technology is the most important and influential characteristic. When faced with a problem, the mesopotamian people had to do something to survive, so that they wouldn't go hungry, so that they wouldn't die of dehydration, or so that their crops wouldn't fail, etc.

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Mesopotamians were the first to create weapons for hunting and to protect themselves. “The Sumerians developed copper and bronze tools and weapons."

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Predators were a big problem for the Mesopotamians, so they needed to find a way to survive. They were the first to develop weapons because their lives were threatened. They also needed to hunt, and in order to do so, they needed something that would be able to kill animals.

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Ancient Mesopotamians communicated through language, as all do, but they needed a way to write it down, and so they came up with the first known written alphabet. "They also developed the world’s first known writing, cuneiform.”

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The language of Cuneiform was written on clay tablets and it was used to write epics, and to tell stories for future generations. If the people of Mesopotamia didn't have written language, they wouldn't have been able to learn as well in school, and Scribes wouldn't have existed.

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Some people might say that Food Supply is the most influential characteristic because you need food to survive, but Technology is the most influential because without tools the Mesopotamians would have been able to hunt for food. The only reason that there was a Food Supply is because of Technology. Without it, we wouldn’t have canals or plows, and none of the crops would have survived.