book notes pt3

  • To provide water they dug irrigation ditches that carried river water to their fields and allowed them to produce a surplus of crops
  • for defense they built city walls with mud bricks
  • Sumerians traded their grain, cloth, and crafted tools with the peoples of the mountains and the desert in exchange they received raw materials such as stone, wood, and metal
  • silt-rich soil good for farming and is left after flooding
  • Sumerians where the first people to form a cavillation
  • There are five key charctericts
  • 1-advanced cities 2-specialized workers 3-complex intuition's 4-record keeping and 5 improved technology
  • city state- city  and the area around it(Independent country)
  • Ziggurat-town square, city hall
  • cultural diffusion- one city state conquers some one else and gives them there way of life all most

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