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Ancient Sumeria

Ancient Sumeria. By: Samantha Seitz. Sumerians. Sumer was first settled between 4500 and 4001 BC Religion Agriculture Language and technology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-n84sDBEB4. R eligion. Worshipped six main Gods Had hundreds of other demigods, and half God deities. Afterlife

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Ancient Sumeria

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  1. Ancient Sumeria By: Samantha Seitz

  2. Sumerians • Sumer was first settled between 4500 and 4001 BC • Religion • Agriculture • Language and technology • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-n84sDBEB4

  3. Religion • Worshipped six main Gods • Had hundreds of other demigods, and half God deities. • Afterlife • Ziggurats

  4. Agriculture • Part of the fertile crescent • Beginning of the domesticated lifestyle • Grew an abundance of basic crops • Irrigation

  5. Language and Technology • Wheel is introduced to the world • Type of alphabet was called Cuneiform • Bilingualism • Arithmetic is created • Boats • Tools

  6. Sources • Ascalone, Enrico. 2007. Mesopotamia: Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians (Dictionaries of Civilizations; 1). Berkeley: University of California Press. • Sumer: Cities of Eden (Timelife Lost Civilizations). Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1993 • Video: youtube.com

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