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The Sumerians referred to the opium poppy as “plant of joy”
They used the opium poppy for pleasure.
They also used the barely they grew for beer.
The opium was eaten not drunk, swallowed or sniffed.
If they mixed it in a liquid the opium was good for curing things like diarrhea and nausea.
4 questions
Where they using the opium poppy to get high?
What were the purposes of the opium poppy when it was first discovered?
What is insomnia?
Did they know that there was dangers of taking the opium?
3 vocabulary words
Allegory- work in which the characters and events are to be understood as representing other things and symbolically expressing a deeper, often spiritual, moral, or political meaning
Analgesic- describes a type of medication that alleviates pain without loss of consciousness
Estuaries-the wide lower course of a river where the tide flows in, causing fresh and salt water to mix
2 literary terms
Allusion-gives reference to bible verses (pg.9)

1 overview sentence
Not only was the opium used for pleasure it was used to cure sickness.