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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
CITY-STATES
- The first city-state is called Sumer
- Sumer had two main places, the central city, and the rural farm land
- People had to make large thick walls to protect their homeland from invaders.
- Leaders would try to expand their territory by gaining more farmland.
- The sumerians lived in 4000 B.C and their homeland was in mesopotamia.
THE GOVERMENT
- The Mesopotamias created a goverment that was both, monarchy and decocracy.
- The kingdoms of Sumer were organized into city-states for the gods.
- The king was assisted in pleasing the gods.
- The king was assisted by ,priests, scibes, and nobels.
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CUNEIFORM
- The cuneiform is the earliest writing in the world. It can be traced back to 8,000 BC and it developed from pictographs and other symbols.
- The Sumerians originally made small tokens of clay to show what the item is.
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SUMERIAN ACHIEVEMENTS
- One of the achievements the Sumerians made was writing. This is the one of the most importants thing ever made.
- Another Sumerian achievement is the wheel. The wheel is what people used for carts, cars, wagons, etc.
- They also used these things called styluses to make symbols on clay tablets.
- Another thing sumerians made was math. They split a year into 12 months and also made a circle 360 degrees.
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