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Civilization/Nation/Group__________Sumerians____________
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They used silver as an exchange to buy and sell, as money.
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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.