Sumerians

stable food supply

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

social structure

• upper class -priests,land owners,and govt.officials
• middle class-"common class"included merchants and crafts people
• slaves were at the very bottom

government

• king's had officials under them to help them with there duties
• sumerian kings enforced the laws and collected taxes
• a king also led his city-states army

religion

• sumerians expressed beliefs by building temples and religion towers
• it was the king's duty to build and maintain the ziggurats
• the ritual killing of a person as an offering to the gods

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