DATES AND WHERE THEY LIVED .

• They live in mesopotamia aroud 4000 BC .
• Mesopotamia - or the fertile crescent - was a region in the middle east between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers,in the territory of modern Iraq , Iran and Syria .

CITY- STATES

• A city - state is a city surrounding an indapendent state .
• A state consisting of a sovereign city and its dependencies .

GOVERNMENT

CUNEIFORM .

• Cuniform is a type of writing that they used in mesopotamia and persia .
• Cuneiform can thus be thought of as wedge - shaped script

ACHEIVMENTS

• Beginning around 5,500 years ago , the sumerians built a cities along the rivers in lower mesopotamia,specialize and cooperated,and made many advances on technology .
• One other achievment was cuneiform . The sumerians made up cuneiform .

AGRICULTURE AND TRADE SOURCES

• The very fertile soil allowed enormous surpluses to be generated .
• The mane crops were barley and wheat.

SUMERIANS

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