Interacting With Other Towns
The city states needed to trade with each other because they couldn’t produce all of the resources they needed to survive. There are many ways to get to the other city states, by traveling over mountains, rivers, and by flat land. One of the most efficient ways would just get a boat and travel on the river if they wanted to travel on it. They would trade on mules or horses if they could because you can move more weight and your back could carry barely anything, and the boat might sink if they put too much weight on it. If you were traveling by mules or horses, you would move fast and you could carry a lot because of huge wagons that multiple mules or horses could move easily.
There were quite a few ways Mesopotamians interacted. The most common way was by trading. Villages would go to other villages and traded stuff that they had a surplus amount of. The next common way of interaction was battles. Villages would attack other villages in hope of gaining more resources and claiming more land. Finally, the least common way of interaction was irrigation. If the irrigation of the village at the top of the river wasn’t working and all the villages further down the were getting bad water, they would go help the village at the top of the river and help fix their irrigation.
Sources:
Ancient Days Textbook
Kids Discover Mesopotamia
Ancient Days Textbook
Kids Discover Mesopotamia