6th++hour+Sumer+(Tigris-Euphrates)

=**Sumer's Ancient Days**= Known as one of the ancient civilizations of the middle east, this was also mentioned in the bible, such as in the story of the man who was robbed and hurt, and none but the one Sumerian would help. Besides the bible, not that much besides that made in stone has survived to tell the tale of them even living there, but maybe if i gather enough information like this here, we can learn more about them, and their ways. This cuneiform text dates back to the 6th year of prince Lugalanda who ruled about 2370 B.C. in southern Mesopotamia. It is an administrative document concerning deliveries of three sorts of beer to different recipients (to the palace and to a temple for offerings) and gives the exact quantities of barley and other ingredients used in brewing. Credit: Max Planck Society
 * Who Were The Sumerians?**

Cities- The Sumerians often lived in rectangular shaped land often surrounded by high walls. The largest buildings where called ziggurats, which where large primates temples that they thought soared to the havens. Although most people lived in tiny houses that skattered everywhere



Sumerians used their own language. Sumerians have the oldest known language in human history. They used wedged shaped symbols allowed to abstract expressions which in the past where unknown. Which made it possible to record things such as literary works all the way to shopping lists
 * Writing and record keeping- **

As many of the civilizations that started to settle realized, there was just to many jobs and skills needed to learn for just one person to know. Some would do pottery, others would learn all they needed about farming, some wove clothing, while others made leather or metal objects. Then, there were traders, priests, and the most important of all jobs, the one to lead all the Sumerians. //Sumerian soldiers. ‘Standard of Ur’, Iraq c. 2500 BC. British Museum. Photo: Philip Binns.//
 * Specialized Jobs**

//**Public Works**// //With each city, peoples needs have to be fulfilled. Some of which were making walls for the city's protection,and making canals for boats and water to travel and help inland crops get much needed water. Even back in 4000BCE, they all had roads made, and of coarse that was a major project for them to do. Some people were able to get their sons education, yet an unlikely daughter had the same possibility, and they had to work from sun up to sun down, being praised for good work, or hit with a cane or possibly worse for bad work.//

//**Social Classes**// //At this point in history, men dominated women, and that was that. Almost no power was given to them, besides the influence of their personality inside the family household. If the husband died of sickness, or of battle, the wife would go to either his father, brother, or if she bore a son, him. Besides the monarch, the priests stood the highest of all because of their religious status, then all the rest generally by wealth.// //Shows the three different worker classes// //(couldn't find ANY citation, but i know the title that will bring you the Exact location:"Sumerian Social Classes-Better Iraq",use google )//

//**Art and Architecture**// //Sumerian art, as well as its architecture, is a pleasant surprise that shows us their creative and imaginative minds. Some of the art is made from marble, diorite, hammered gold, and lapis lazuli. It is said that some of the best artwork is of Gudea, ruler of Lagash. As odd as it may sound, much of the art was made for religious rituals, instead of decoration. Besides that, many of the statues were based on the looks, even slightest details, of the human body.// //Sumerian Statuettes, from the Temple of Abu,// //Tel Asmar, c. 2700 - 2600 B.C., Iraq Museum,// //Baghdad and Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.//

In the end, Sumerians were like most all other civilizations, and were conquered. The ones who conquered them were a Semitic people, which came in when plants were dieing because salt was building up where they farmed, and they themselves got kicked out after yet more groups ruled/pillaged them, the Elamites and Amorites.
 * The Conclusion**

(shows a guy in a chariot, couldn't find a specific soldier type picture) //**http://www.workersforjesus.com/josh11-13.htm**//

//**Works Cited Page**// Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization: the Evolution of an Urban Landscape, //by Guillermo Algaze, 2008// History Begins at Sumer, //by Samuel Noah Kramer, 3rd Edition, 1989// The Sumerians -- Their History, Culture and Character, //by Samuel Noah Kramer, 1971// Sumer and Sumerians, //by Harriet Crawford, 1991// Babylonians, //by H.W.F. Saggs, 1999 (Includes Ubaid period and the Sumerians to 500 BCE)// The Quest for Food: Its Role in Human Evolution & Migration,// by Ivan Crowe, 2000 www.bibliotecapleyades.net/. ../reptile22_04.jpg www.crytalinks.com/sumer(art and architecture section)no citation found for the website ancientscripts.com dad2059. winnipesaukee.com wordpress.com