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mayans also grew beans, squash, avocados, pears, sweet potato's, guava, chili peppers, papayas and tomatoes. Mayans used a farming technique called milpa,also known as the slash and burn technique.the Mayans would burn down the land that was covered and the cut down the remaining foliage. This technique posed a problem because the land wouldn't last very long. The Mayans cycled through different areas to keep a stable farming.
Mesopotamians also raised sheep, goats, and cows. Hoping for a plentiful crop, farmers worshipped Baal. Baal was a major Mesopotamian god of the sun and good crops. They also worshipped Ashnan, the Sumerian goddess of grain. Farming Tools The farmers of Mesopotamia were inventive. They made bronze hand tools, like hammers, sickles, axes, and hoes. Mesopotamians were probably the first to use the wheel. By 3000 BCE, they had invented the plow and plow seeder. Mesopotamians even wrote handbooks that told how and when to plant crops. They had a calendar based on the moon to aid farmers, too. Irrigation Techniques Mesopotamians traded their extra grain for stone, wood, metal products, and other goods. irrigation. They built canals, ditches and dikes to bring water to the land from the rivers. Because the rivers were higher than the surrounding plain, the water for irrigation flowed down into the fields.