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A brief history of Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It discusses the Sumerians, the first settlers of Mesopotamia, and their contributions to agriculture, political organization, and trade. The document also mentions the four social groups that made up Sumerian society.
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Mesopotamia Mesopotamia or better said, land between rivers, was named for its location in the southwest of the Asian continent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Sumerians first settlers of Mesopotamia created an irrigation system this helped to develop agriculture and thus obtain food in abundance. The Sumerians, also, around the year 3, BC built several cities, which over time these cities became larger and more powerful, that is how the City-States were created, as a form of organization of the Sumerian people.
The Elites were made up of the king's officials, priests and their families. Dependent commoners were those people who worked in the palace and temple. Free commoners appeared to peasants, merchants, fishermen, scribes, and craftsmen. The slaves used it to build public works or domestic work. Mesopotamia has left as a legacy the cuneiform structure, which was the first language written on clay and was so important that it spread to other civilizations of the time. In addition, irrigation systems were created thanks to this, today water can be transferred to the driest areas, and they were also the ones who used the number 60 to calculate the time that the same system is still used today, that is the reason why an hour is 60 minutes, and a minute is 60 seconds. Leiny Valdez