HIST 1001 Lecture : NOTES
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Sumerians: developed the first writing-3200 b. c, located in modern day iraq, called sumerians because the acadians used that name, agriculture, domesticated plants in about 8500 b. c, located in the area known as mesopotamia between the tigris and. Euphrates river: main plant they domesticated was emmer, which is an early form of wheat, during the neolithic (new stone) age, in which the ax was. Just along the rivers is where the agriculture takes place. It is a land of virtually no developed control of the water: civilization emerges more stable, this gives the priests power work (aka building the levels) The people develop different systems to control the water (canals, channels, levees, dramatic weather changes are going to occur. How did they do this? rain the river brings a lot of water, silt and fresh ground in the spring. The society has no scientific knowledge they do not really know when.
