6)sm+Agriculture+&+the+Economy

Agriculture & the Economy  __Agriculture__ -Used to make bread & beer, basic ancient Mesopotamian food & drink -As well as grain, farmers grew vegetables & fruit -Farmers grew crops that needed special care, such as lettuce, in the shade of their fruit trees-Both the Elamites & the Sumerians kept sheep, goats, & cattle for meat & milk
 * ( ** Shutter, pg. 11-13)

[] -The most important crop was grain, mostly barley -Farmers plowed the soil in the fall & then sowed the seeds -Used simple wooden tools, including plows pulled by cattle or donkeys -Evidence shows they hunted wild animals -There were no forest areas; land was very dry and hot

[] -The highlands of Elam supplied neighboring Sumer & Akkad with materials -Specifically wood, semiprecious stones & horses

__Economy__ (//World Book Encyclopedia.// “Elamite/Persian Empire” Pg.296-300) -Elam was largely a society based on agriculture -Selling food & Materials, was the way wealth was made throughout the Elamite Empire

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