Human Resources (Occupations/Jobs)
This human resource grew crops that fed Mesopotamian communities.
Who were farmers? They used plows to grow grain in fertile soil.
These three natural resources helped crops grow.
What are fertile soil, water, and sunlight. These three natural resources are necessary for growing crops.
A persons's work, knowledge, or skills used to make goods or provide services.
What is a Human Resource?
To obtain needed materials and to exchange surplus goods they produced.
Why did Mesopotamian cities trade?
These resources are people who use their skills and labor to produce goods and provide services.
What are human resources?
This human resource shaped clay into useful containers.
Who were potters? They use a potter's wheel to shape clay pots and fire harden them using an oven (kiln).
Potters use this natural resource to make pottery.
What is clay? Potters used a the natural resource clay along with a potter's wheel to make pottery more easily.
A tool made by people that helps a potter produce goods more easily.
What is a potter's wheel? A capital resource.
Finished pottery, if another trader or farmer agreed to the trade.
What could a potter trade for grain?
Plows, pottery wheels, and other man-made tools used by Sumerian workers are examples of these resources.
What are capital resources?
This human resource wrote records using cuneiform.
Who were Scribes? They recorded transaction and trade information on a clay tablets using a wedge shaped stylus.
These natural resources supplied water for irrigation and deposited fertile silt that helped Mesopotamian farmers grow crops.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
How did a stylus help a scribe? The tool, a stylus is a capital resource that scribes use to make their job easier.
They recorded quantities, deliveries, debts, and exchanges.
Why where Scribes important to trade?
A Mesopotamian farmer represents this type of resource, while the plow used to prepare the soil represents another.
What are human and capital resources?
This human resource made mud-bricks used to construct buildings.
Who were Mud-brick makers? They mixed mud and straw; then formed and dried or fired the bricks to make them durable.
The scarcity of the natural resource Stone might change a construction plan because
Builders might need to trade for stone further away or substitute more available materials, like mud-brick?
Firing mud-bricks could make them more durable than sun-dried bricks.
How could a kiln change brick making? A kiln or oven, a capital resource made to fire mud-bricks making them more durable than sun-dried bricks.
Workers (human resources) produced different goods and services (capital resources), creating interdependence and more trade.
How did specialized jobs support city growth?
This capital resource allowed Mesopotamian potters to shape clay into pots more quickly and produce more goods for trade.
What is the potter's wheel?
This human resource helped build and maintain levees?
Who were Stone workers? They used metal tools to cut, shape, and transport stone to be used to reinforce levees and other structures.
Drought might affect both farming and trade because
Less water could lower harvests, reducing food surpluses and goods available to trade
Potter, clay, and wheel; 3 resource types.
The potter=human, clay=natural; wheel=capital Together they produce pottery to trade.
If clay became scarce, what chain reaction might follow?
Potters and mud-brick makers could produce less; builders and traders would have fewer goods or higher costs if the pottery and bricks are harder to get.
By using tools such as brick molds, Sumerian workers could produce more goods in less time, demonstrating this important relationship between two types of resources.
How do human resources use capital resources to increase production and make trade more efficient?