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    Mesopotamia was the birthplace of many important innovations including the first written language of cuneiform, the wheel, and irrigation. Cuneiform was invented by the Sumerians in 5000 BC and written in clay. The wheel originated as a potter's wheel in Mesopotamia around 3500 BC before being adapted for use in transportation. Irrigation was also developed in Mesopotamia to supply water for crops in the dry climate. Other Mesopotamian innovations were ziggurats, which were large stepped temples, and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon built around 600 BC along the Euphrates River. These inventions facilitated communication, transportation, agriculture, and worship, laying the

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    Mesopotamia was the birthplace of many important innovations including the first written language of cuneiform, the wheel, and irrigation. Cuneiform was invented by the Sumerians in 5000 BC and written in clay. The wheel originated as a potter's wheel in Mesopotamia around 3500 BC before being adapted for use in transportation. Irrigation was also developed in Mesopotamia to supply water for crops in the dry climate. Other Mesopotamian innovations were ziggurats, which were large stepped temples, and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon built around 600 BC along the Euphrates River. These inventions facilitated communication, transportation, agriculture, and worship, laying the

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    Mesopotamia was the birthplace of many important innovations including the first written language of cuneiform, the wheel, and irrigation. Cuneiform was invented by the Sumerians in 5000 BC and written in clay. The wheel originated as a potter's wheel in Mesopotamia around 3500 BC before being adapted for use in transportation. Irrigation was also developed in Mesopotamia to supply water for crops in the dry climate. Other Mesopotamian innovations were ziggurats, which were large stepped temples, and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon built around 600 BC along the Euphrates River. These inventions facilitated communication, transportation, agriculture, and worship, laying the

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    Mesopotamia Legacy

     Cuneiform

    was the first written language. It was invented by the Sumerians in roughly 5,000 BC. Cuneiform
    was written in clay. Even after the fall of the Sumerians, other civilizations used cuneiform as
    their way of writing.

     The Wheel
    Throughout history, most inventions were inspired by the natural world. The idea for the
    pitchfork and table fork came from forked sticks; the airplane from gliding birds. But the wheel
    is one hundred percent homo sapien innovation.

    Evidence indicates they were created to serve as potter’s wheels around 3500 B.C. in
    Mesopotamia—300 years before someone figured out to use them for chariots.

    The earliest wheels were invented in about 3,500 BC. The earliest form of wheels were rollers
    placed underneath heavy objects to roll them along. After that, people discovered that placing
    rollers under heavy objects made it even easier to move them. Eventually, these runners and
    rollers evolved into the wheels that we use today.

     Irrigation

    Irrigation was also invented in Mesopotamia, because southern Mesopotamia was dry and there
    was not enough rain to grow crops. People dug trenches so that water flowed to water their
    crops.

     The Hanging Gardens

    the site of the Hanging Gardens has not yet been conclusively established.

    "The gardens were rumored to be about 400 feet wide, 400 feet long, and over 80 feet high.
    Some historians believe the gardens were built in a series of platforms that all together were
    320 feet high. There were paths and steps and fountains and gorgeous flowers, all build to make
    a homesick queen feel welcomed and loved."

    Another theory, popularized by the writings of British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley,
    suggested that the gardens were built within the walls of the royal palace at Babylon, the capital
    of Babylonia (now in southern Iraq), and did not actually “hang” but were instead “up in the air”;
    that is, they were roof gardens laid out on a series of ziggurat terraces that were irrigated by
    pumps from the Euphrates River. Traditionally, they were thought to be the work either of the
    semilegendary Queen Sammu-ramat (Greek Semiramis, mother of the Assyrian king Adad-nirari
    III, who reigned from 810 to 783 bce) or of King Nebuchadrezzar II (reigned c. 605–c. 561 bce),
    who built them to console his Median wife, Amytis, because she missed the mountains and
    greenery of her homeland.

    They were built around 600 BC, along the bank of the Euphrates River (south of the modern day
    city of Baghdad, Iraq.)

     Ziggurats

    Ziggurats were huge temples built by the Sumerians to honor their gods. They were huge
    temples with steps leading up to the top. At the top, priests placed offerings of food and other
    goods.
     Sailboats, Checkers, Chariots

    These inventions made it possible for people to communicate and get around better. They helped create
    more efficient ways of watering plants to grow more food, so that more plants could be grown and
    more people could live in Mesopotamia. All of these inventions helped create better inventions for the
    future.

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