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Sumer
Sumer was a region in ancient Mesopotamia, which is now modern day Iraq. The Sumer civilization was one of the first to develop agricultural skills.
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Why did the ancient sumerians invent the abacus?
The Sumerians were the first known civilization with a written language called Cuneiform. Translating the hundreds of symbols and patterns told us that these people not only payed taxes but had report cards. Mostly, "documents" were found that pertained to matters of currency or government. The Sumerians used math for bookkeeping, building, and time. We adapted their 60 seconds in 1 minute, 60 minutes in one hour, and 24 hours in a day calender system. (the 24 hours in one day derived from the 3 segments on your fingers on both hands. The Sumerians used their thumb to count each segment and that's where we get 24 from.
Who gave the sumerians a great advantage in trade?
they traded grain and clay and guns and weapons and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff and stuff with people from a different countries and people out of the Persian gulf and Mcdonalds and Burger King and Wendys
What are some sumerian artifacts from the past?
The Sumerians were in existence during the Neolithic and early Bronze Age. They used stone hammers and bronze implements and weapons.
The civilization was Akkad and the people became the Akkadians.
(no relation to the Acadians)
How where the social classes of Sumer organized?
Upper: Kings, Warriors, Priests, etc.
Middle: Merchants, Farmers, Fishers, Artisans.
Lower: Enslaved people, Criminals, Unskilled worked.
What jobs did people have in the 1600s?
Fur Trappers, Lumer shipping, and Slave trading were popular jobs back in the 1600-1700s.
- Baylee S.
What were the basic units of Sumerian civilization?
The basic units of
Sumerian civilization were city-states.
What did the Sumerians use math for?
it helped them alot, to also tell time time, by the minutes like 60 Min's 60 sec and other stuff. written slol4lifemaize
What did the Chinese and the Sumerians had in common?
what the Chinese and the Sumerians had in common and what was unique about each culture. (5 points)
Who was the King of Babylon who attacked the Sumerians?
2 Kings 25 - The Fall of Jerusalem and the Captivity of Judah
A. Jerusalem is conquered.
1. (1-3) Jerusalem under siege.
Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around. So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
What metal did Sumerian merchants not import?
It is widely believed that iron was the only metal not imported by Sumerian merchants as their tools and weapons were crafted using either copper or bronze metals.
There is quite a bit known about the Sumerian civilization. People known as Ubaidians in the fifth millennium formed settlements that would become Sumer. The Sumarians after 3250 BC began to intermarry with locals and thus formed Sumerians. The Sumerians would eventually form the Semites, those people living in the Middle East and Mesopotamia. They had a long history of decline and prospering, and built cities discussed in the Old Testament.
In ancient Sumer many houses were made of?
The main material that Sumerian houses were made out of is sun baked mud bricks
The sumerian developed a system of writing known as?
cuneiform was the system of writing that the Sumerians invented
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Which invention or advancement of the sumerians do you think was the most important?
The most important invention of the Sumerian's was Irrigation.
Irrigation is how the Sumerian's led their water through pipes, etc.
Did the sumerians have a calendar?
It was based on the moon's rotation around the earth. The year therefore consisted of twelve moon cycles, which is roughly 40 days less than the sun-year we use today.
The Sumerian city-states lost power when their empire weakened. They became vulnerable to attacks from groups of people such as the Akkadians. Eventually, the Sumerian city-states lost control and the Akkadian king, Sargon, set up the world's first empire, which eventually, fell in to the Babylonians. ~dolphinluv99
This answer is cold hard fact. Corrections would be fabulous, but nothing above is false information.
There is a conversation below in the comments section.What evidence proves that the Sumerians were not prehistoric?
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