CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Question
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They added wheels to chariots and wagons.
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They built boats out of reeds and leaves.
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They built a trade network.
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They invented the world’s first writing system.
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Mrs. Symmonds, you are being sneaky. These are all Ancient Sumerian Innovations.
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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: -Beginning around 5, 500 years ago, the Sumerians built cities along the rivers in Lower Mesopotamia, specialized, cooperated, and made many advances in technology. The wheel, plow, and writing (a system that we call cuneiform) are examples of their achievements.
Detailed explanation-3: -The wheel The Sumerians were the first to use circular sections of logs as wheels to carry heavy objects by joining them together and rolling them, with the oldest existing wheel from Mesopotamia dating to around 3, 500 BC.