answersLogoWhite

0


Want this question answered?

Be notified when an answer is posted

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: What group of people reject the idea of the Sumerian city state?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Continue Learning about Music & Radio

Why can the Sumerian city-state be called theocracies?

In a number of the Sumerian City-States, the priests wielded direct political power. This would make them theocracies.


What was the temple called that was located at the center of each Sumerian city?

zigurrat


How was sumerian society organized?

Sumerian communities were divided by social structure. There were 3 social classes/or groups. At the top was the upper class. They had the most money and power. In this class there were the priests, kings, government officials, and warriors. They had finer homes. Then came the middle class. There was the artisans, merchants, farmers, and traders. If you needed something they were the ones who had stuff. Normal people lived in small mud-brick houses. Lastly, came the lower class. They were treated harshly. They were considered the enslaved farmers, people forced to work in temples, an slaves. The Sumerian communities were divided into city-states. At the center of each city-state there was a ziggurat. They beleived that the gods lived here. Only gods/godesses were allowed in here.


Was Nineveh a city state in sumer?

No, it was north of Sumer which occupied what is now central to southern Iraq (Nineveh is in the north of what is now Iraq and is encroached on by present-day Mosul). Nineveh was part of the later empires or polities including Assyria and Metanni; but it may have been at one time inhabited by Sumerian people prior to the migration of Sumerian people to southern Iraq when Sumer was establihsed.


Is a legendary figure in Sumerian literature and was the King of Uruk which was a city-state in Sumer that was uncovered in 2003.?

Gilgamesh