The Inventions of The Mesopotamian People
By:Brianna Hall

PLOW

• Animals do the work
• Without the plow we couldn't loosen soil
• Without it we couldn't farm

WHEEL

• Helped travel easier
• Made easier for animals ro pull things
• Made of solid wood circles
• From carved boards clamped together

CALENDAR

• Kept track of time
• When to harvest crops
• Hold religious ceremonies
• 12-month calendar based on moon cycles

CUNIEFORN

• Keeping records and writing
• Made up of 1.200 different characters
• Characters: names, physical objects, numbers
• Written by cutting wedge-shaped marks into damp clay
• with sharp reed

SAILBOAT

• Travel up and down the eu-phrates and Tigris rivers
• To move they used the wind or paddles

CODE OF HAMMURABI

• The first set of recorded laws
• Dealt with crimes, farming, business, marriage
• Punishments for each crime

IRRIGATION

• Used to control seasonal floods by dams
• Dug canals the let water flow to their fields
• Method of watering crops
• Allowed farmers to grow surpluses

NUMBER SYSTEMS

• The 60-minute hour
• 60-second minute
• 360 degree circle