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• highly advanced and well-developed arts, sciences, government, religion, social structure, infrastructure, and written language.
• first known civilization to use writing to record their thoughts and literature
• wheel, a cornerstone of human civilization; widespread use of technology and infrastructure, including canals and irrigation; agriculture and mills; shipbuilding for travel into the Persian Gulf and the trade of textiles, leather goods, and jewelry for semi-precious stones and other things; astrology and cosmology; religion; ethics and philosophy; ...
• great income disparity, greed and ambition, and enslavement. It was a patrilineal society in which women were second-class citizens.
• Sumerians created one of the first written scripts around 3000 BCE, called cuneiform, meaning wedge-shaped

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