THE SUMERIANS

Stable Food Supply

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

Social Structures

• upper class-priests,landowners,and gort officials
• middle class-"common class" included merchants and craftspeople
• slaves were at the very bottom

Government

• Sumerian kings collected taxes
• Sumerian armies included both professional soldiers and temporary citizen-
• soldiers protected their country.
• Governors ruled over outlying towns.

Religion

• built big ziggurats
• ziggurats were made for the gods
• music played during ceremonies in ziggurats

The Arts

• Arts included forms of expression such as paintings
• made instruments such as drums,pipes,harps and much more
• metalworkers made many objects like weapons and cups.

Technology/Writing

• built arches
• invented a wheeled chariot
• sumerians created cuneiform