Sumerians

Stable Food Supply

• built canals,dams,and reservior
• made the first plow out of wood
• the plow made farming easier

Social Structure

• upper class,landowners,and govt.
• middle class,common class included merchants
• slaves were at the very bottom

Government

• Sumerians were the first to write laws
• king had officials to help him

Religion

• built stair cases for their gods
• had relegious ceremonies
• priest stood in towers for the gods blesssing

The Arts

• music was an important art in Sumer
• there were many types of craftsmen

Technology

• they invented the wheel
• they also invented the arch
• used the wheel for farming

Writing

• they invented the oldest type of writing
• pressing pictures into wet clay
• and then dried the clay to form tablets