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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 were scribes members of the richest and highest class of sumerians culture?
They were paid well for their special skill.
What did sumerians keep records of?
How many sheep, cattle, and other items there were, the people (who weren't slaves), crops, how many people grew sick, have many soldiers there were.... &c.
Pretty much anything they had they eventually kept a record of. :)
What role did scribes play in sumerian society?
very important one they were assigned oral and written work
Does Sumer from Mesopotamia come before or after Babylonians?
They were both always there, they just had different religions.
Did the sumerians have an advance economy relative to their time and place?
Sumerians did not have any advance over the economy relative to their place and time. They were there to do their mission.
Did the Sumerians believe that priests represented the gods?
no, but they believed hat they were closer to the gods so some of the time they would make priests write letters to the gods. Like in Ancient China, writings were important because the priests wrote letters to the gods, getting this idea from the Sumerians. Also, priests in Ancient China also used oracle bone. Some people say that oracle bones were from Ancient Sumer and they traded them with china.
What features of mesopotamia geography forced the sumerians to trade?
they needed wood and eventually they had to trade their surplus for it and other things they didn't have but needed badly.
What type of shoes did sumerians wear?
What type of shoes did the sumerians wear?
Answer: The shoes they wore had animal skin,grass,and plants
How did Sumerians practice religion?
they belief in many gods , they practiced in temples in altars made of wood
Did the sumerian's have a flag?
Probably not, because the Sumerians lived about 5000 BCE and the oldest flag ever found was from about 400 BCE.
What was agriculture like in the ancient Sumerian civilization?
Planting and harvesting barley and rye for bread on the flood plains of the Tigris-Euphrates rivers.
What is the purpose of the Enuma Elish?
The Enuma Elish was a Mesopotamian creation story. It may have eventually become the precursor of the first creation story in Genesis, as there are similarities, or both may have come from a common source.
The Sumerian civilization is credited with which of the following?
The first instance of writing. They used cuneiform - a form of picture writing similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics
Why did the sumerians city-states lose power?
The sumerians city-states lost power because the Akkadians invade the city states and took control over everything
