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Time Travel Time Are you ready to time travel? Well come on lets go! (In space later on.) I feel time travel sick. What about you? Are we there yet? Yes! Finally were here. About 4000 B.C. farmers lived between the Tigris  and the Euphrates . They are the rivers that Mesopotamia  was between. Both of the rivers start in the snow-capped Taurus Mountains  but now in present day Turkey . Mesopotamia  is now in the area of present day Iraq . Mesopotamia <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"> is in a piece of land called the <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Fertile Crescent <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: red; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">which is very fertile. Now how about cuneiform. This is going to be good. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"> Cuneiform was the first type of writing. Cuneiform was invented by the Sumerian people. Overtime the Sumerians changed the symbols to make it easier and faster to write and recognize. What did they use to write with? What did they use to write on? They used sharp reeds and clay tablets to write with and to write on. There were about 500 or more symbols used everyday. I’m glad we have paper and pencils to use and easier letters or symbols to use. Cuneiform is still important so we know what happened in the past. Let’s go check out the ziggurats. I wonder if we could go in one. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"> Ziggurats were very important to the whole <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Mesopotamia <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"> land. Ziggurats were big temples. The <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Mesopotamia <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"> people believed that their gods lived at the top of the temples or Ziggurats. Only the priest could go to the top and inside the ziggurats no one really knows why. Aw man we can’t go in the ziggurats I was really hoping we could. Hey let’s ride on that wagon over there. Hey now that I thought about how the wagon is made we should really go check out about the wheels. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"> The wheel was very important and it is still today very important. The wheel was invented by the <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Mesopotamia <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"> people. One of the first wheels used was on farm wagons and war chariots. Wheels are everywhere just think about it. The wheel has been proven one of the most important inventions handmade in human history. What would we have done without the wheel? Everyone would very miserable and tired. We all better be happy that the wheel was invented. Wow I never knew the wheel was that important. Let’s go home I’m tired now. My brain has to have a rest. It got over loaded with all that information. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">That is a little about <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Mesopotamia <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">. Hope you learned a little about Cuneiform, Ziggurats, and the Wheel. Maybe you could learn more about this stuff if you Google it, ask your teacher if you are in school, ask your parents at home, or maybe find a book about it. I hope you want to learn more about this stuff because then you would be smart about <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Mesopotamia <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">. You might also love history so you want to learn more about <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Mesopotamia <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">. I’m learning about a bunch of civilizations in social studies. Well hope you learned from our time travel we had about <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Mesopotamia <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">. Now let's go home! Uh oh our time travel machine won't start. Oh no we're stuck here forever! Oh great now we get to live in the past of <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Mesopotamia <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">. How wonderful. Not! <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">