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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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What sumerian advances in mathematics do you use every day when you look at the clock?
They divided an hour into 60 minutes and a minute into 60 seconds.
Why were Temples were central to Sumerian city life?
sumerians were religous so they worship gods and temples are part of the "method" that they worth the god
What does it mean when you say sumer was a decentralized collection of city-states?
It means that there was no one major government but many smaller villages or "city states".
What innovation by the sumerians are still important to civilization today?
Neighboring Sumerians and the Akkadians were bilingual.
What is the Sumerian lifestyle and culture?
there religion was to worship many gods. if it rained they would think the "rain god" was making it rain. if it snowed they would think the "snow god" is making it snow, etc. they believed there was gods for everything. their church was a ziggurat. the young boys had to go to school. they had to write in cuneiform. they studied to become a script which was a very skilled cuneiform writer, that is what the boys were supposed to grow up to be, while the girls stayed at home and cooked and cleaned.
no it is not a monarchy is a leader in the govern ment i think
What did the Sumerians believe about their gods?
the sumerians belived that the gods needed to grow more plants and food or put up more wall to protect there homes
Why did sumerians create walls around their cities?
For defense-to keep people that didn't want in the city out of the city.
How did the Sumerians gain control of the twin Rivers?
Well, according to my book.... " the river water that ran through the holes made channels in the soil. The Sumerians made the the channels larger until they became canals" answered by 11 year-old 2013
Sumer is a city in Mesopotamia
Sumer ( "land of the civilized lords" or "native land") was a civilization and historical region in southern Mesopotamia, modern Iraq during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age.
Did the Sumerians and ancient Egyptians write in hieroglyphics?
yes the egyptians used hieroglyphics but im not sure about the sumerians.
When was royal road made in mesopotamia?
Persian Royal Road, ancient road running from Susa, the ancient capital of Persia, across Anatolia to the Aegean Sea, a distance of more than 1,500 miles (2,400 km). Royal messengers, who, according to the Greek historian Herodotus, were stopped by "neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night," traversed the entire road in nine days, thanks to a system of relays. Normal travel time was about three months. Alexander the Great made use of the Royal Road in his invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire. It was modified after the occupation of Babylon.
How did the sumerian city walls relate to the environment?
The wall's bricks were made from local mud.
Sumer is an ancient civilization in Mesopotamia. It is the worlds first civilization.
Mesopotamian means "The land between the rivers." The two rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates. Sumer is where the two rivers converge (converge means to come together).
What did the sumerians do to go fishing?
sumerians made there own fishing poles out of sticks and other materials
