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The Chaldean Sumerians (Burghers) around Babylonia and of the Devas of the Indus River Valley Trade Cities was of a Sumerian World Trade Empire. The Sumerian/Devas Burgher citizens were a race of aristocrats that owned property in a City-State and that employed laborers for their International merchandising Industry in that City-State 'Corporation'. The land's common folks, the labor class, could not read, write, nor was allowed to vote. Only the City-State stock holders, the bourgeoise aristocrats of their Corporate City-State could vote -as they still do in all Corporations at present times. ________ Each elected Corporate State's Priest-governor [President}got their authority from these Burgher families' votes. They ruled their City-State under a Democratic Republic. This Political 'Burgher System' can be found in ancient times and for over 7000 years in places around the world.
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How did sumerian kings get power?
Sumerians believed that the king got power from the gods.
What gave pharaohs the right to rule?
The Egyptian pharaoh rule and derive their authority from god and were considered divine. From the chapter I of "The West" under "The kings and the gods in the old kingdom".
What is the form of the sumerian ziggurats?
the significance of ziggurats are the kings coming from the fake heavens to the world and have people worthy them by staring at them.
What did the Sumerians believe in which they meant their right to rule was God given?
There is nothing in Sumerian religious writings that says that kings have a 'divine right' to rule. What happened was that in many of the Sumerian earliest settlements, priests were the virtual rulers of a community. Building on that, later Kings still retained an aura of having a direct link to the gods; also, the early Sumerian myths mentioned a long list of equally mythical kings descended from the gods who were said to have ruled for improbably long periods. From that, it was only a small step to the claim that a King's right to rule was god-given.
When kings claimed that God gave them the authority to rule they invoked the?
divine right theory
What do Sumerian kings live in?
Where do the Sumerian kings live
What does the divine right mean?
This means that Kings derive their authority from God and not their subjects so that rebellion against the King was a sin. In a sense, an absolute ruler.
How where Sumerian kings chosen?
bloodline
How did the sumerian kings dress?
Woolen robes.
Who were the first kings in Sumerian civilization?
G
What were replaced priests as Sumerian ruler?
Kings
What first sumerian kings were probably people who were what?
ion
Where did the Sumerian kings claim to get their power to rule?
The Gods
How were sumerian states arranged?
Sumerian city-states were independent political entities centered around a city and its surrounding lands. Each city-state had its own ruler, government, and defensive walls for protection. They often engaged in alliances and conflicts with neighboring city-states.
What did Sumerian kings have to do?
they placed the power to govern in kings because they believed the god let the kings rule. the gods let the kings rule because the kings worshipped them. the priests were also leaders but not as strong as kings. kings were trusted with Sumerian government because they strongly believed in their religion.
How were Sumerian kings different from egypian pharaohs?
Dick in a box
In a society based on rational-legal authority leaders derive their authority from?
custom and accepted practice
