Fable 1. meat
2. skin or hide
domesticated
3. guidelines
champion
4. think
ponder
5. defend
criteria
6. forever
mutton
7. tamed
eternal
8. story-like
migrant
9. worker
pelt

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.