Malory Alimario 8B
In Social Studies we are now
learning about the people in Mesopotamia, the Sumerians. The Sumerians as we
have learned have a very wide variety of food choices. They had things like,
fruit, wheat and barley, fish, date palms, honey, and chick peas. To prepare
their land for growing crops they would plough the land with bronze blades and
would irrigate the land with water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Many
rich people lived very close to the Temenos, which is the city center, because
they have jobs that are very close here.
In the previous unit, we learnt
about the Mesolithic and Neolithic times, and what kind of lifestyles people
had. The people in Neolithic times were sedentary, which was caused by farming
and harvesting. The people in the Mesolithic times, though, were the first ones
to discover harvesting, and they harvested things like wheat and barley. Not
many people during these times knew about harvesting, so they weren’t as
sedentary and were still nomadic. In the
Neolithic times, the first civilization known was Jericho which was located now
in Israel 10 000 years ago. It was known by most people by its 8 meter high
wall surrounding the land. This is what we have been learning in Social
Studies.
