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Morley, Jacqueline.

You wouldn't want to be a Sumerian slave! : a life of hard labor you'd rather avoid / written by Jacqueline Morley ; illustrated by David Antram ; created and designed by David Salariya. - Danbury, CT. : Franklin Watts, 2007. - 32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm. - You wouldn't want to series. . - You wouldn't want to-- .

Includes index.

Family farmstead -- Flood and drought -- Sold to pay a debt -- Household slave -- Goathered to the Gods -- Temple workshops -- Keeping records -- War over water -- Hard labor -- Ziggurat completed! -- Feast for nanna -- Slaves of the Gods -- Glossary -- Index.

Discusses life in Mesopotamia a long time ago where each city had its own king and there were always wars so life was tough and you could end up a slave.

IG 930 Lexile.



ISBN: 0531187284 9780531187289 9780531189214 053118921X

LCCN: 2007296671

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Slavery--History--Iraq--Juvenile literature.
Slaves--Social conditions--Iraq--Juvenile literature.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Iraq--History--To 634--Juvenile literature.
Iraq--Social conditions--To 634--Juvenile literature.

LC Class. No.: DS70.7 / .M67 2007 HT863 / .M67 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 935