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• Mesopotamia• . “the land between the rivers”
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• Early civilization began between the Tigris andEuphrates
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• Sumerians settled at the mouths of rivers
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• Other people traded with the Sumarians along the water route
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• People who learned to write were called scribes.
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• Ordinary people worked on dikes and farms
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• Most houses were made of bricks and mudmixed with straw
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• Irrigation brought water to the soil
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• And the Sumerians were able to grow barley
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THE END
• By Andrew Redmond• With assistance from Graham and Ms. Jack