The Sumerians were one of the first known civilizations, but their historical importance doesn't stop there. Two great inventions are attributed to them:writing and the wheel, both around 6000 years ago.
His writing was particularly used by the elite, especially priests and scribes. It was engraved on clay tablets with wedge-shaped tweezers, hence the name cuneiform writing. The wheel, another great Sumerian invention, allowed them to develop chariots, which were drawn by horses. Still about their military art, they used spears, or combat javelins, in addition to armor made with bronze extracted from the mountains.
But his legacy doesn't stop there. They even created dikes and dams that prevented flooding and flooding in the cities, and they still drained water through canals to the crops to further expand their rapidly growing cities.
Its architecture focused mainly on the construction of temples in the form of pyramids called ziggurats. Ziggurats were usually used to honor some god or king.
The floodplains of Mesopotamia (a region that included Babylon) were perfect for high food production. The economy was based on agriculture, mainly on the cultivation of barley. Barley was used as a means of payment for wages and in daily rations, and was also used as the basis for the manufacture o