<span>He was trying to make Washington into a role model for the people at that time. People wanted to know about Washington’s private life, and by constructing this story, he was trying to create a positive leader that people could look up to.</span>
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. The use of levees and canals is called irrigation, another Sumerian invention.
