Science and technology-
- Arithmetic and geometry: in order to effect city walls and building, plan irrigation systems and to survey flooded fields
- Architectural innovations: arches, columns ramps, and the pyramid shaped the design of the ziggurat and permanently influenced Mesopotamian civilization
- Cuneiform: summaries created a system of writings. One of the first known maps was made on a clay tablet in about 2300 BC others contain some of the oldest writings
The first empire builders-
- From 3000 to 2000 BC the city states of Sumer were almost constantly at war with one another. The weakened city-states could no longer ward off attacks from surrounding people that were in the desert area or the other parts of the city-state.
- About 2350 BC a conquer harmed Sargon defeated the city state of Sumor.
- They took control of both northern and southern Mesopotamia, Sargon created the world’s first empire- several nations, people or previous independent states all under the control of just one ruler and all under control by that same leader.
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