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ESPIRIT Chart You must include main ideas and details in each category Civilization/Nation/Group__________Sumerians____________ Time Period____________________________________________ They used silver as an exchange to buy and sell, as money. E S P I R I T The King had to give offerings for the temple so that the gods would bless him and his temple. The citizens also left offering. Ur Nammu was the ruler of Ur in the third millennium BC. He ruled for 100 years. He showed his power by building lots of monuments, like temples. He united all the cities of Sumer into an empire.Their government was based on city-states. The government regulated religion and developed a court system. Ziggurats spread through out Mesopotamia, Babylonia, and Assyria. The Sumerians believed the gods came from the mountains the temples were built on platforms to look like mountains. The king use to carve his name in thing in the temples so that the gods would bless him and his kingdom. The buildings in Uruk were made with thousands of mud bricks. But some had the foundation of a rare Sumerian stone. Sometime the walls were decorated with pieces of baked clay. The pieces were painted with blue, black, white, red, and yellow: to form a mosaic. Mosaics were also used to decorate brick columns. Sumerians developed the cuneiform alphabet. They were the founderes of astronomy Ur Nammu created a new type of temple called Ziggurat. Its was a large platform with smaller platforms on top. Each Ziggurat represented a god and each had a name. His son Shulgi, launched a calendar and weigh system into the empire.