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Ancient Sumer
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 Fertile
Crescent
– Between Persian Gulf and the
Mediterranean Sea
– Crossroads
– Fertile land
– Mesopotamia
 Tigris
and Euphrates Rivers
– Irrigation and floods
– Epic of Gilgamesh
 Sumeria
– First Cities
 Ur, Erech
 Sumerian
Civilization
– City-States
 Rulers
– Maintained the city, enforced laws, led armies
– Chief servant of the gods
 Social
hierarchy
– Ruling class
peasant farmers
– Women
 Important in early Sumer
 Upper class had rights
 Religion
– Polytheistic
– Gods behaved like ordinary people
– Ziggurat
 Pyramid
Temple
 Keep gods happy
 Celebrations
– Afterlife
 Grim
place
 Learning
– Cuneiform
 Wedge
shaped writing
– Strict Education
– Mathematics
 Basic
Algebra and geometry
 Number 6
– 60 minutes
– 360 degrees
 Accurate
Calendars