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Mesopotamia's Achievements
For this report I will be discussing the achievements that Mesopotamia accomplished. I will start from the first city to the first wheel. I hope you enjoy what I have to say in this report and you remember everything that I say because it’s VERY important. Have fun while I take you on adventure back in time.
The first big achievement that Mesopotamia made was the first city. The world’s first city was called Sumer which was located in southern Mesopotamia where the twin rivers converged. The rivers names are the Tigris and the Euphrates. The people who lived in that area were called Sumerians. Another important fact is that people refer to Mesopotamia as “the cradle of civilization.”
Mesopotamia’s next big achievement was trade. Trade means when some one wants something they have to give something to get it. They started off trading little things like copper for a pair of leather gloves, that would be a trade. After a few years they started trading more and trading bigger things like land or a house for a house. Then after a few years of trading like that they started making little round circles made out of metal called coins/money. That's what people started using to get what they wanted.
Mesopotamia's next big achievement was the wheel. The wheel is a thing that they need to transport supplies. The wheel goes on the bottom of the cart and it makes the cart roll. They started off just pulling a flat bottom wood cart. They would have to pull that all the from Mesopotamia to India and it was very hard for them. So they started putting logs under the cart so it could roll faster but they had to get someone to run around the back and get the log that was rolling away and bring it and to the front. Then they put holes in the sled and put the logs in them so they wouldn’t have to run back and to the front again. It just stayed in and rolled faster than it did. Then they put circles where the logs were and the circles were called wheels and that right their was the first carriage.
Their next huge achievement was writing. Writing is where you would talk to other people but on a paper. They started using little tokens made out of clay to count how many animals they traded that day. They used that for a few years until they started writing on clay tablets that were wet and they would use a reed as their tool to write on it. You could use this one more, you could write to your friends, or you could keep track of the animals easier.
This brings an end to our fantastic travel back in time to see what the Mesopotamians did. So you see that items we used today was used back around the Mesopotamian’s age. I hope you enjoyed my report and you learn a lot of information.
Posted by 22587 on 2/11/07; 4:32:01 PM
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Posted by 22587 on 1/3/07; 11:11:32 AM
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I picked this site because it gives out a lot of information. It tells you everything about Rome and what the coins look like. How old the cities were and about when they left the cities.
Posted by 22587 on 12/4/06; 2:32:14 PM
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Posted by 22587 on 11/30/06; 8:32:30 AM
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The Progress Of Life For Homo Habilis
The name of the the race is Homo Habilis. Their time line is about 2 to 1.5 million years ago. They look sort of like monkeys but they had some human features. They can walk upright and they have hands and feet. The shelters they used were crude shelters they made from branches and stones were their main tool. A skill that they possessed was that they can find dead carcasses to eat. If they could not find a dead carcass they would have no food except for ants that they acquired by putting a stick in to an ant hill and eating them like cotton candy. They lived in Kenya, Tanzania, Koob Fora, Olduvai Gorge. Archeologists nicknamed the Homo Habilis "Handyman" because they made the crude homes with sticks cut by stones.
Toutant, A. & Doyle, S. (2000). Ancient Worlds (Outlooks 7). Oxford University Press Canada.
Posted by 22587 on 11/10/06; 3:19:57 PM
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The Deserted Island Assignment
If I needed to get fruit out a tall tree I would make a ladder to gain access to the fruit. I would cut down two trees about 6 feet long. To attach the rungs to the ladder I would tie leaves and other little sticks to the 6 foot sticks.
I would create a bowl out of a coconuts to hold water. I would Cut down a tree with an ax that I made out of a sharp rock and a stick tied together with leaves. Then make the tree into a big storage tank for water by hollowing the tree so it could hold water, and another one for bathing.
The short tems needs to live on a deserted island are food, water, clothing, shelter. As for my long term needs I would need weapons, games, a fishing rod, a map, and rope to climb up trees, and a raft to try to get off the island. I would also need an ax for shelter and the raft, a fishing rod for food, coconut for water transport and to hold it, etc.
Posted by 22587 on 11/10/06; 3:11:32 PM
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