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Q: Which Sumerian belief about the king helped strengthen the social order?
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What were the sumerian social classes in order of importance?

Community members decided the social classes of the Sumerians


What were the religious beliefs of the Sumerian people?

is this questin from a social studies book because that is the same question they use in the book


The idea that traders were above farmers in sumerian society was apart of what?

it was a part of Social Hierarchy


How did Sumerian gods effect the lives of people?

The Sumerians were a people who settled on the flood plains of the mighty Tigris and Euphrates Rivers around 4000 B.C in what is today part of Iraq. Sumerian religion was based around the worship of four life giving deities - the god of heaven, the goddess of earth, the god of air and the god of water. The way thet Sumerians religion affect this society is the way they approached death and prepared for the afterlife.


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.