What are some sumerian inventions and advances in learning that influenced the development of later civilization?

The ancient Sumerian civilization brought much learning and inventions to later civilizations. Sumerians developed the first forms of writing; first photo-writing and then cuneiform script. The wheel was a Sumerian invention of utmost importance. Sumerians developed agricultural processes such as irrigation and the use of plows, and domesticated animals, including pigs and cattle. Mathematically, Sumer developed a system of meteorology.