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Scribes were people who were trained to write and keep records in ancient times. They started writing when the Sumerians had to start keeping track of records. They started drawing simple pictures with a variety of objects. Sumerian priests had developed a way of writing that would be able to record far more than numbers of objects. When the people realized how useful writing was priests set up schools to train scribes. They eventually made a written language called cuneiform. The definition of cuneiform is, the written language of Sumer.

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The Sumerians had many techniques for agriculture. One of the techniques was irrigation. Irrigation is a system for watering crops, with irrigation Sumerians could keep crops alive during the hot exhausting summer. They also created irrigation canals to lead water from rivers to their fields.  The next technique they used was the plow. Before they invented the plow they would take sticks and poke little holes in the ground one by one. This made work very slow. With the plow the farmers just have to hitch an oxen to their plows so that they could drag the plows and made the holes to place the seeds inside.

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Sumerian Society created a social order with three distinct classes. The upper class was made up of a ruler, his top officials, powerful priests, wealthy merchants, and large landowners. The middle class was mostly made up of average people such as, farmers and skilled workers. The lowest class was made up of mostly slaves. This order was supported by the Sumerian religious beliefs and by the governments of the city-states.

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Writing was created by the Sumerians. They did not write with a pencil and paper, but with wet clay and a stylus, or a wedge-shaped tool for writing.They did not have written words, but they did have symbols for every syllable in their spoken language. Today, this language is called cuneiform.

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The priests were taken over by the kings. This happened because the kings started to think that they were better than the priests, and because they thought this, the Sumerians thought so too.

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This is a map of ancient Mesopotamia.