Sumer

The temples were called Ziggurats! The answer came from one of Mrs.O's students. BLUE CREW Answer: ZIGGURATS

Women did have rights. They could buy and sell property. They could also run buisnessess.

well not all people thought it was a good idea but they needed a social pyramid or everyone would be at the same range and level plus it wouldn't make sense if a pharaoh didn't have slaves

Objects have been found that were traded between the two and in each other's area. If I make a pot in India and trade or sell it to you in Italy that pot would be found in Italy but it would be clear that it wasn't made there. Not only are items traded between cultures but inventions and technology. If someone invents an item in country A and one like it is found in country B historians know that the two cultures traded or were in communication.

If your job had more things to do with god and religion the higher class you were.

In Sumerian social structure kings, landholders and priests were the highest and next wealth merchants and a majority of Sumerians who are slaves and farmers. Women had a lot of rights to do anything that men can do such as priesthood and artisans and other. In ancient Mesopotamia the Sumerians undertook the stupendous task of building embankments to control the floodwaters of the Euphrates River. The rich soil produced abundant crops such as wheat and barley. For the first time there was a surplus to feed city workers such as artists, craftsmen, and merchants. Good soil is good to these. This great change in living habits brought about civilized defined as a city-based society held together by economic enterprises. There were no nations then, only small city-states.

TheSumarians were a group of people native to the culture of ancient Ur situated in the southern part of present day Iraq. They are considered to be among the firstagriculturists using the water of the Euphrates to irrigate their fields and later on in the life of the city building canals for the same and also for trade, an activity in which they showed great ability, controlling trade routes further afield than Anatolia. The Sumarians are also noted along with their cousins the Babylonians for extensively using cuneiform as a means of communication most often it is though in financial activity. The religion practiced by the Sumarians was polytheistic in the extreme there was a pantheon of "state recognised deities" but each family, trade, city quarter and even individuals also had their own specific gods. In the centre of Ur was situated the great ziggurat dedicated to the moon god Nannar who was patron of the city. (Please see Abraham, Sir Leonard Wooley and The Encyclopedia Britannica)

There are many problems that Mesopotamia faced some are:

1. There are great floods that happen in this place.

2. There are not enough water for the people.

3. It was always way too hot.

4. There was no enough food.

He ruled Mesopotamia. He was king of Babylonia for a time, but eventually he came to rule all of the middle eastern world. He rebuilt Babylon after destruction. But, he is mostly known for his laws. He has 282 laws. He was also known for "The Code of Hammurabi", like an eye for an eye. Or, back then a law was like this, "if someone build somebody else's house, but the roof fall in and kills the house owner's son, they would kill the roof builders' son. so, eye for an eye, a son for a son, etc.

King Hammurabi of Babylonia lived in the capital of Babylonia, Babylon. Babylonia is in southern Mesopotamia which means "land between two rivers". Mesopotamia is between the Euphrates and the Tigris River in the Fertile Crescent. King Hammurabi was the one who created the Code of Hammurabi (a set of 282 rules for citizens of Babylon).

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Everyone had to change their way of living and they all had to follow the Hammurabi's Code to live in a common surrounding.

Sumerian Priests were always in the 1st or highest social class making them very rich and wealthy. Priests had the role of communicating to the gods and bringing them the offerings of sumerian citizens.

The category of African indigenous religion refers to cultural, religious or spiritual manifestations indigeneous to the continent of Africa. There are arguably several religions in this category. Traditional African religions involve teachings, practices, and rituals that lend structure to the African native societies. Traditional African societies reflect local conceptions of God, the Gods (if the cultures are polytheistic or henotheistic), and the cosmos. Even within single communities there may be slightly different perceptions. African traditionalists almost always acknowledge the existence of a high God or demiurge who created the universe (Shango, Olorun, etc.) Many traditional African stories speak of how God or God's son once lived among the people, but as humans did something to give offense to God, God withdrew to the heavens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_traditional_religion

Decent. Quite different from those of Winter, anyway.

Iraq

It means "great king" in Sumerian, a civilization in Mesopotamia 3,500BCE.

The name Sumerian {or Shinar about 6,000 years ago} is a name of a land in the Chaldees. It was populated with the Chaldeans, as seen in history and maps. This Samara Culture was of the 32,000 yr. Aurignacian Culture seen first in northwestern France. The people were of the ancient 14,000-8,000 yr. At'lan Culture of Brittani. The 35,000 years of Basque history tells this area was of the Atlantiques' Maritime villages. This is the connection of the ancient northwestern France of the Aquilonians-Celts with the Chaldeans of Sumer.

Their trade settlements were next to rivers and seas for World Shipping of produce, merchandise, and live stock. Their factories of merchandise and Agricultural land use river water for their production, especially for watering their agricultural land. Their 32,000 year Aurignacian Culture found in northwestern France was as the 'Mu' World Trade Shippers found mainly in the Americas (predominantly in Central America). This World Trade shipping Empire can be seen to have developed into the Atlan Culture found in Balivia, South America. This Atlan shippers were called by the ancient Basque as "Atlantiques" as their maritime villages along northwestern France. Anthropology claims their existence as the 14,000 - 8,000 yr Atilan Culture. This Culture showed a 8,000 yr writing. Their also was found an 8,000 yr goddess named Cybele. These gods can be found in the ancient Sumerian clay Tablets.

These findings can show that the 32,000 yr Aurignacian Culture was a parent culture of civilizations that became known as the 5th millennium Sumerian/ Samara Culture that founded the river valleys of the Fertile Crescent between the Euphrates and Tigris. They used the rivers by digging canals from these rivers to water their GARDENS. It included the (Torah-Bible Genesis 2)Gihon River=Nile River from Ethiopia and Pison River (see Pishon village) of the Indus River Valley/Pakistan-India. These are the Fertile valleys of the Sumerian trade Empire after about 2800 BC.

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

The Sumerian civilization developed in the area now known as Iraq.

The Sumerians gave us food and writing.