SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Farmers could plant faster, helping them plant larger areas and grow surplus grain for traders to sell.
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Many farmers who had learned metal working to make plows also made other metal goods for traders to sell.
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Farmers could plant more quickly, so they had more time to go to markets and buy things from traders.
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Farmers who bought plows from traders found their new tools so helpful that they later bought many other goods from traders.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It revolutionized agriculture by carrying out the tasks of seeding and plowing simultaneously. Seed was dropped down the middle funnel into the furrow that the plow created. The ancient Mesopotamians believed that the god Enlil created the seeder plow and that the image of the plow could also be seen in the stars.
Detailed explanation-2: -Just like today, plows in Mesopotamian times were used to break up and till soil in preparation for planting crops. Plows also helped control weed growth, and bury unwanted crop residues from previous harvests.
Detailed explanation-3: -Water Routes The two rivers of Mesopotamia, the Tigris, and Euphrates, provided a good water route for merchants to use to transport their goods. These rivers also had tributaries, canals, and lakes which provided routes as well. In this way, the rivers of ancient Mesopotamia were like the highways of today.