The Sumerians were the first people to migrate to

Mesopotamia, they created a great civilization.

The Sumerians built cities along the rivers in Lower

Mesopotamia, specialized, cooperated, and made many advances in technology. The wheel, plow, and writing (a system which we call cuneiform) are examples of their achievements. The farmers in Sumer created levees to hold back the floods from their fields and cut canals to channel river water to the fields.

Who were Sumerians?