Unit #3 Reflection Mesopotamia

1. In 2-3 sentences for each topic, summarize what you learned about the following:
    a) The domestication of plants and animals   
    b) The transition from hunter-gatherer communities to the first civilizations
    c) Early religion and beliefs

2. Imagine someone saying to you, "Learning about the Sumerians isn't very
    important since they're long gone!" What would you tell them in order to change their mind?

3. Include at least 2 visuals in your post (photograph, drawing, map, table/chart...)

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A) What I learned about domestication of plants and animals is that people in the past made the plants and animals domesticated so they could eat them.I learned that they domesticated for a lot of reasons like to produce food, or valuable stuff like cotton,wool or silk, for helping them in transportation and trade. They also grew a lot of different crops.

B)Almost the whole of human history, from at least 3 million years ago, mankind has lived hunting or fishing, and gathering edible items of any kind for example;from fruit to insects.But basically hunter-gatherers,have lived by doing what comes natural. I learned that they improved a lot of things, like language,writing system and the calendar. 

C)The things I learned about religion and beliefs is that when they started to improve their religion they started practices and also started praying. They believed in god so much and were scared what would happen if they did a bad thing. They thought the god would strike and punish them.

2.If somebody told me that "Learning about the Sumerians isn't very important since they're long gone."
I would tell them to learn about this because that is how we are now in this day, how they developed since now and how they changed living,religion and also their beliefs.




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