CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Question
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the arch
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the plow
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the wheel
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irrigation canals
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Sumerians didn’t invent wheeled vehicles, but they probably developed the first two-wheeled chariot in which a driver drove a team of animals, writes Richard W. Bulliet in The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions.
Detailed explanation-2: -Before the wheel, Sumerians had to drag their goods on flat-bottomed carts called sledges. The sledges often got stuck in the mud, and couldn’t carry heavy loads of supplies. So, wheeled carts made transportation much easier.
Detailed explanation-3: -The wheel, plow, and writing (a system that we call cuneiform) are examples of their achievements. The farmers in Sumer created levees to hold back the floods from their fields and cut canals to channel river water to the fields. The use of levees and canals is called irrigation, another Sumerian invention.