SUMER PUBLICATION

GOVERNMENT

• Priests/priestess had most of the power
• Were a theocracy- government by divine authority
• Believed rulers got power from the gods

ECONOMY

• Based on farming, trade, and industry
• Made woolen textiles, pottery, amd metalwork
• Traded for copper, tin, and timber

RELIGION

• Believed gods/goddesses owned the cities
• Polytheistic
• Built many temples for the gods

ACHIEVEMENTS

• First to use wheeld vehicles
• Created a cuneiform system of writing
• First to make bronze

PEOPLE OF SUMER

• Sargon- made the first empire
• Hammurabi- set a code for Sumer

OTHER INFORMATION

• Made a number sustem based on 60
• Charted constellations
• Major social groups: nobels, commeners, slaves