Innovations
An innovation is new ways of doing things. In Sumer boundaries for farming had to be made so a unit of measurement was developed. The Sumerians called it the iqu. Today we call it an acre. But one of the greatest innovation by the Sumerians was the writing system. Which included marked symbols made by the scribes.
Inventions
One of the first inventions in Sumer involved crops and flooding. Dikes and canals. Dikes held the flooding rivers within their banks so crops wouldn't be destroyed. Canals carried extra water back into the river so crops wouldn't get over watered or again destroyed by the water. To make inventions you need technology, or the use of tools and skills to make a product or achieve a goal.
Information found in Our World's Story
Information found in Our World's Story