https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017 By: Natalia Cotter and Addison Maynard en-us 2017-09-25 20:32:23 UTC 2023-11-10 21:48:47 UTC hello@padlet.com 24cotternr https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/191034004 One agriculture technique was irrigation. With this invention farmers could keep their crops alive during the dry summer. Another technique was the plow. They would use the plow to poke holes into the ground. ]]> 2017-09-25 20:49:10 UTC https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/191034004 https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/191044861 2017-09-25 21:38:08 UTC https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/191044861 https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/191046854 Each group that adopted a writing system changed it to fit their needs. Writing began as pictographs. Then it went to the alphabet. ]]> 2017-09-25 21:52:06 UTC https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/191046854 https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/191458440 Sumerian city-sates developed a social order with three social classes. The upper class consisted of the ruler. The average people were farmers and skilled workers, they were the middle class. The lowest class was mostly slaves 

]]> 2017-09-26 20:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/191458440 https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/191470667 To keep track of all the goods that were made the priests developed the system of writing. They did this by drawing different symbols to stand for different goods on a wet peace of clay and a sick or a peace of straw to carve it in.]]> 2017-09-26 21:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/191470667 https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/191473873  In order To stay powerful, the kings needed support from the priests. So  the kings were always respectful to them. The kings and priests had to work together to make religious ceremonies.]]> 2017-09-26 21:43:56 UTC https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/191473873 24cotternr https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/192615843 https://drive.google.com/a/capousd.org/file/d/0B4mVWZmo2cT4QXJRSnRZS1NfMWc/view?usp=sharing]]> 2017-09-29 20:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/192615843 https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/192620686 https://drive.google.com/a/capousd.org/file/d/0B45FBRuOuJFyMlp1Y25zS1hqc0U/view?usp=sharing]]> 2017-09-29 21:35:15 UTC https://padlet.com/24cotternr/ncam2017/wish/192620686