Why do scholars consider the Sumerians to be innovative?

Sumerians made great contributions in writing, transportation, mathematics, astronomy, and architecture that is why scholars consider them to be innovative.

Sumerians' inventions include:

• the sailboat

• the plow

• the wheel which was which was used for pottery and chariots and which improved the transportation by land

• the first written language called the cuneiform. games like checkers.

• metalwork, a craft at which they excelled and

• canals for irrigation