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FarmingFarming

FarmingFarming

The settlers built cities along the Euphrates and Tigris

Rivers. The farmers wheat , barley, dates, and vegetables.

They also collected fruits, berries, nuts, shellfish, and crab.

Before the farmers knew how to farm, they got their food

from different plants. The farmers found out that if you

irrigated the crops they would grow faster. The farmers

raised animals such as sheep, goats, and cows. Also when

a drought came the people couldn’t walk to a different area

to trade.

FarmingFarming

• Farming is similar to life today because we still farm. We still farm because that is how we get our vegetables.

BibliographyBibliography

• http://mesopotamia.mrdonn.org/agriculture.html

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School/Education in SumerSchool/Education in Sumer

School/Education in SumerSchool/Education in Sumer

The Sumerian people believed in

education. The Sumerian people

also used a written language

called cuneiform writing.

Cuneiform writing became a

written language in the early

5000 B.C. The people wanted

their son’s to learn how to read

and write. When students went to

school and did something wrong,

they would get whipped. Although

the students were whipped, they

still wanted to go to school and

learn.

School/Education in SumerSchool/Education in Sumer

• School and education are similar to life today because kids parents want their children to go to school and have a good education. Also that if we cheat on a test today we would get in so much trouble and back then if students got in trouble for talking when they shouldn’t be they would get whipped.

BibliographyBibliography

• http://mesopotamia.mrdonn.org/school/html

• http://mesopotamia.mrdonn.org/cuneiform.html