"The foundation of future Mesopotamian advances in scientific/technological progress was laid by the Sumerians, who first explored the practice of the scientific hypothesis, engaged in technological innovation, created the written word, developed mathematics, astronomy, and astrology, and even fashioned the concept of time itself. Some of the most important inventions of the Sumerians were: the wheel the sail the corbeled arch/true arch irrigation and farming implements maps mathematics time and clocks astronomy and astrology medicinal drugs and surgery"
"Even so, "scientific method" is the most precise term for how the people proceeded because the Mesopotamians, while keeping to a theistic concept of life, allowed themselves to imagine a world which operated according to certain natural laws, and in attempting to find out how, they laid the foundation for scientific inquiry which would later be developed by Egyptian and then Greek thinkers and would carry on to the present day."
Mesopotamian science and technology emerged during the Uruk (circa 4000–3100 BCE) and Early Dynastic (circa 2900–2350/2334 BCE) Sumerian periods in southern Mesopotamia. Sumerians pioneered practices resembling hypothesis-driven inquiry and produced major inventions: the wheel, sail, arches, irrigation systems, maps, mathematics, clocks, astronomy/astrology, and medical techniques. These innovations addressed practical problems through observation, proposed solutions, and testing. Religion remained central, and the will of the gods was often seen as decisive. Nevertheless, Mesopotamians conceptualized natural laws and set foundations later built upon by Egyptian and Greek scientific traditions.
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