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CITY-STATES OF ANCIENT SUMER
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Fertile Crescent• Mesopotamia – “Land between the Rivers”• Tigres & Euphrates rivers
– Modern day Iraq• Water & good soil.• Early cities
– Ur– Babylon
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Sumarian Culture• City-States
– Each had it’s own ruler– Class hierarchy: most people made up the
lower, peasant class.• Male dominated society but some
women had power/legal rights.• Religion: polytheistic, many gods;
controlled all aspects of life.• Ziggurat: pyramid-type temple.
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Education• Advanced education system.• Only for the select few.• Cuneiform: first writing system;
wedge-like writing on clay tablets.• Mathematics: based on the number 6.• Epic Of Gilgamesh: first work of
literature; Sumerian beliefs.• Influenced later Greek & Roman
civilizations.
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Cuneiform Wall – British Museum
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