Social Studies

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.