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Stable Food Supply |
They had an irrigation system that helped water the crops that helped them with a stable food supply and they had networks of canals,dams,and reservoirs. |
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Social Structure |
The social structure was a structure that had three sections top,middle,and bottom the top was the people that owned their own land and the middle was the people that worked with metal to create tools and the bottom was people that were slaves for the upper class. |
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Writing |
The writing the Sumerians used was called cuneiform. They started off with two thousand and then lowered the number down to seven hundred.The writing was based on a simple form of writing called pictographs.The artifact that represents this is the impression which was made from stone and steel. |
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Religion |
Religion includes the people believing in gods or a god together with a form of worship.They tried to please the gods to help them with the growing of the crops and the settling disputes.They built the temples to show their beliefs in gods/god.The artifact that would go with religion would be the married couple because it was from a temple. |
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Government |
They had king because they believed that they were chosen by the gods and the kings enforced laws, and taxes to the Sumerians and helped build temples.The scribes helped the king write the laws. |
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Art |
The arts was a way to show creativity and expression like painting,architecture such as fancy cups,and music.The Sumerians that worked with metal made weapons,and cups.They also made decorative items such as jewelry,and mirrors.The Sumerians believed that music brought joy to the gods they also sang at and played instruments at temple ceremonies and entertained the guests at feasts. |
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Technology |
The most important tool that the Sumerians built was the wheel.Sumerian pottery makers used the wheels to sharpen clay pots.They also figured out that the wheels would roll forward and so they started using them for their carts.They used the wheels buy attaching sticks to the wheels. |
