levees, Earthen walls between the fields and river-to tall for the water to get over, alluvial plain, silt deposits at the rivers mouths formed a vast plain, gated ditches, control the water, use when needed, drought, a long period without precipitation, food grown, barley, wheat, beans, vegetables, fruits, dates, figs, grapes, Calendar, Why? To track the floods, Calendar, measure time, 12 months, 30 days, zodiac, Developed writing, on clay tablets, to keep records, to make things permanent, to write down laws, cuneform, type of writing, plow, Sumarian invention, The wheel, made things easier, Villages then City States, Each City State had its own King.

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