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5.5 Government A Sumerian army included both professional soldiers and temporary citizen-soldiers, some were foot soldiers, others drove chariots, wheeled vehicles pulled by horses.Scribes helped record the laws and the Sumerians were the first people to develop a system for writing laws. |
5.4 Social Structure The civilization have a complex organization, or social structure.At the top was an upper class, which included priests, landowners, and government officials.They worked with different types of metals like gold, silver, tin, lead, and bronze. |
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5.9 Writing Cuneiform this name comes from the Latin word for wedge. The Sumerians used a wedge-shaped stylus (a sharp, pointed tool) to etch their writing in clay tablets.Sumerians developed cuneiform around 2400 B.C.E.On this clay tablet, scribes from the Temple of Bau recorded the amount of barley (a grain) that each of the workers and their families will receive.hey dug up Tablets, Pottery, and ruins of cities. |
5.7 The Arts Arts included creative forms of expression such as painting, architecture, and music. They also made decorative items, such as mirrors and jewelry.The Sumerians architects designed temples and ziggurats. Music was another important art in sumer and the Sumerians believed that music brought joy to the gods and people alike.Musicians played instruments and sang during temple ceremonies. |
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5.6 Religion Sumerians expressed their religious beliefs by building temples and religious towers called ziggurats. They believe in gods they built statues showing people worshiping gods. |
5.8 Technology Sumerians expressed their religious beliefs by building temples and religious towers called ziggurats. They believe in gods they built statues showing people worshiping gods. |
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5.3 Stable food supply The Irrigation system was helpful to the Sumerians because the crops weren’t getting dry or overflowed with water now they have a stable food supply.The plow is for turning the soil so the soil can be ready for the crops to be planted.The clay tablet show’s the amount of grain that family’s got.Sumerians most important invention was the wheel. The earliest examples of the wheel date back to 3500 B.C.E.Sumerians potters, or pottery makers, used wheels as a surface for shaping clay into pots.Potters wheels spun, flat side up, on an axle.To build arches, the Sumerians stacked bricks made of clay and straw so that they rose in steps from the walls until they met in the center.This small copper statue shows a Sumerian chariot being pulled by four donkeys. This kind of chariot was probably used by Sumerian soldiers. |
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