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 * Agriculture and Economy of **
 * The Rise **

 ×  Irrigation system because of dry climate  ×  Brought water from Tigris and Euphrates rivers  ×  Constructed intricate systems of canals, dikes, weirs, and reservoirs  ×  Used levelling devices and measuring rods and maps  ×  Systemized techniques for farming  ×  Almanacs prepared and used as texts in Sumerian schools and to farm with.  ×  Ploughed with stone and cut with sickles in beginning  ×  Metal ploughs eventually used after metalworking skills developed  ×  In the begining they had no real M  oney system  ×  Weighed precious and semi-precious metals  ×  Traded and bartered  ×  Cows, sheep, goats, pigs and other animals raised  ×  Products and textiles were traded for stone and metals  ×  Stone and metals scarce in area <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Grew barley, chickpeas, lentils, millet, wheat, turnips, dates, onions, garlic, lettuce, leeks and mustard <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Used oxen as primary animals for large loads, and donkeys as primary transport animal <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Hunted fish and fowl <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Using canals farmers would flood fields then drain water <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Next let oxen walk through and kill weeds <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Dragged fields with pickaxes <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  After field was dry they ploughed, harrowed and raked 3x <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Harvested during dry fall season in three person teams <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  One was reaper, one binder and one sheaf arranger <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Used threshing wagons to separate cereal heads from stalks <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Used threshing sleds to uncouple grain <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Kartika; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Kartika;"> ×  Winnowed grain/chaff mix
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