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A ziggurat is a pyramid-like structure, having several layers until it reaches the top floor. The top floor is a palace that holds the god. People would make sacrifices and popes would preach there.

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The word cuneiform means wedge shaped. The ancient Sumerians created so that they could write down laws and records about their lives. Levees are mounds of dirt that keep water out of fields. The Sumerians created levees to protect their crops from floods. The sailboat was a Sumerian invention that allowed Sumerians to travel across the river.

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Irrigation was invented for watering crops and growing food.

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Cuneiform was the way of writing back then. It was used by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Hittites, Elamites, and the Akkadians for 3,000 years. They would write on Cuneiform on chunks of wet clay and after they were done writing they would set it in the sun to dry.

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Nebudchazzar made one of the seven wonders of the world; The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Sargon was the ruler of the Akkadian empire.  MQ

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Mathematics was invented so they could count the amount of money they had.

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The time was for priestesses and priests to know when to pray to the gods.

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Levees helped the farmers of Mesopotamia control the water levels for the crops, releasing water into plots if they wanted to water crops.

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Time was invented to tell when people needed to do something or go somewhere.

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The wheel was invented in the 4th millennium BC in Lower Mesopotamia(modern-​​day Iraq), where the Sumerian people inserted rotating axles into solid discs of wood. It was only in 2000 BC that the discs began to be hollowed out to make a lighter wheel. This innovation led to major advances in two main areas.

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As the sayings eye for an eye or tooth for a tooth is like saying if i can do this you shall be punished.

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they made mathematics

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they invented laws, so everything went smooth and that it would punish people who did bad things like take an eye out

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Transportation by land was difficult and took an enormous amount of time. The Sumerians realized that transportation via sea would be a lot easier and more convenient

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They were simple wooden boats that would carry people and goods downstream and then back upstream. But boats need people to navigate and guide them across rough waters, so the solution of having a vessel carry their goods and people had to be refined. Thus sailboats were invented.

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The Weel was invented in 3500 BC and it was used for transportation for the rich people. It was also used for irrigation, pottery, and milling.

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Modern knowledge of their dress is imperfect, but it seems to have been simple. Woolen cloth, made from the flocks of local sheep, was employed. It was cut into squares of fabric and then pinned on the shoulders and bound around the body

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"An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth..."

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Damp clay was formed into a flat tablet. The writer used a stylus made from a stick or reed to impress the symbols in the clay, then left the tablet in the air to harden. This tablet is marked with symbols showing quantities of barley rations for workers.

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The Mesopotamian shekel – the first known form of currency – emerged nearly 5,000 years ago. The earliest known mints date to 650 and 600 B.C. in Asia Minor, where the elites of Lydia and Ionia used stamped silver and gold coins to pay armies.

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Glass has always been found in nature, but the first glass created by humans can be dated to about 4,000 years ago, when craftsmen working in Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, discovered the art of mixing sand, soda, and lime to make glass.

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Cuneiform helped the civilizations note down important needs, further developing communication.

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oldest wheel was named ljubljana marshes wheel

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oldest wheel was named ljubljana marshes wheel

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The plow helped the hunter-gatherers stay in one place so they didn't need to rely on animals as much

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The plow helped the hunter-gatherers stay in one place so they didn't need to rely on animals as much

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Cuneiform is the old style of writing mesmotmia

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The biggest problem with the plow is that the dirt would stick to it and needed to be removed manually

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The biggest problem with the plow is that the dirt would stick to it and needed to be removed manually

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1.meopotamia invented the cradle,2.and the laws,3.also writing

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1.meopotamia invented the cradle,2.and the laws,3.also writing

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helps them in war

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They made it possible to feed people and animals in the same place. They also used taxes.

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The earliest plow was made of wood and was heavy

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The earliest plow was made of wood and was heavy

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the sailboat was used to get people across the rivers easier

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they invented time through a circle 360 deegrees

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they invented time through a circle 360 deegrees

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The wheel was not used for transportation

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The first sailboat was invented to sail across rivers holding people and resourses they also used them for far trading

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The first sailboat was invented to sail across rivers holding people and resourses they also used them for far trading

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Hammaurabi only had control of 50 sq miles when he was controling Babylon.

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They invented the map to let them travel easier

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the first 282 laws were about a eye for an eye .

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They invented chariots by using domesticated horses and bulls for personal transportation to travel through out the land

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They invented chariots by using domesticated horses and bulls for personal transportation to travel through out the land

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that in habrabis code you kill some on e then someone kills you

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that in habrabis code you kill some on e then someone kills you

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the plow was used to soften the soil for farming

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The first wheel wasn't used for transport it was for p

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The first wheel wasn't used for transport it was for p

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Allows them to fight wars stronger.Also allows them to travel faster and use up close weapons more often

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the first wheel was not used for tacking thing on
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helped them keep track of what they sold and traded

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they built levees to control the water   

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they built levees to control the water   

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the wheel was used for the chariot,irrigation,and milling

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Hammurabi's code

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the hamurabi code was found by the french in 1901.         hamurabi ruled from 1792 bc to 1750 bc.          and his code was writen  in cquneuform 

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the hamurabi code was found by the french in 1901.         hamurabi ruled from 1792 bc to 1750 bc.          and his code was writen  in cquneuform 

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the wheel was not used for moving things it was used for a potter's wheel is used to shape pottery
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they invented the arch to use as city gates

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they invented the arch to use as city gates

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helps them right laws or rules down

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The clay tablet is to be able to keep track of things and to be able to right cuneiform and cuneiform to right down the laws and the laws to keep everything in check and the people not going around and doing whatever they want

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The first boat was invented and used as transportation rivers

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The oldest wheel in Mesmotamia was named ''Ljubljana Marshes Wheel''

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Time was to tell when it will be dark time was divied into 60 parts which was 60 secounds then 60 minutes an

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Time was to tell when it will be dark time was divied into 60 parts which was 60 secounds then 60 minutes an

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Allows them to fight wars stronger.Also allows them to travel faster a

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they invented the arch to use as city gates

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they invented the arch to use as city gates

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Maps were made for people to find there way to trading and hunting grounds it well be alittle sketch on a clay tablet

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Maps were made for people to find there way to trading and hunting grounds it well be alittle sketch on a clay tablet

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the wheel was used for the chariot,irrigation and

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The first boat was invented

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they used a sixty to base time for sixty second minutes and sixty second hours

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they used a sixty to base time for sixty second minutes and sixty second hours

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helps them to know where there going

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the first wheel was created in 3,500 bc

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they inveted time on a 60 second scale for sixty second minutes and sixty 

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they inveted time on a 60 second scale for sixty second minutes and sixty 

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Allows them to fight wars stronger.Also allows them to travel faster A

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Wheels are round
(not a good fact)

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Irrigation allowed them to control water for crops to grow more food.

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Irrigation allowed them to control water for crops to grow more food.