Question

In this lesson, you've learned about many achievements and advances of ancient Mesopotamian civilizations. Choose one contribution that you think had the biggest impact on history and explain your response in about 50 to 100 words. Support your answer with evidence such as information from this lesson, previous knowledge, and outside research.

Answer 1

The wheel, invented by the ancient Sumerians, had the biggest impact on history. Without the wheel, many other inventions wouldn’t be possible. Vehicles such as carts, wagons, and cars couldn’t operate without the wheel. Early factories also used wheels moved by water to power machinery. So even though it was invented thousands of years ago, the wheel is still impacting our lives.

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Answer 2

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Although the question is incomplete because you did not attach references to the lesson, we can say the following.

One Mesopotamian contribution that I think had the biggest impact on human history was the development of agriculture techniques and the knowledge to know about the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, so Sumerians could use it for growing crops and to avoid some catastrophes.

The Sumerians were the oldest civilization on planet Earth. They settled in the middle of the above-mentioned Rivers in the Middle East region, modern-day Iraq. They developed great knowledge to built impressive buildings called Ziggurats and formed important city-states such as Uruk, Kish, Ur, and Lagash. Agriculture techniques were a big reason they could settle in these regions.