Sumer Civilization Research Paper

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____________________________________ This is BREAKING NEWS for all Time Travelers. On the month of September, all students in Honors World History 9 choose a civilization from the civilizations to 1500 A.D. diagram that the teachers gave us in the first weeks of school. Abdi-kareem Anthony, which is me, choose the Sumer civilization. The civilizations were from top to bottom, oldest to

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newest, and I choose the Sumer civilization because the chart portrayed it as being the oldest civilization known located in the southernmost part of Mesopotamia. I love researching

about the ancient world and civilizations, so I felt that this was a perfect topic to research and learn about.
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Sumerians led a city-life that was reconstructed as temples and residential districts; intensive agriculture, stock breeding, fishing, and date palm cultivation forming the four mainstays of the economy; and highly specialized industries carried on by sculptors, seal engravers, smiths, carpenters, shipbuilders, potters, and workers of reeds and textiles. The organized city-life was shown and organized in inscribed tablets. The Sumer civilization started to take place following after the Ubaid people settled into Sumeria. The Sumer people had the character of the sculpture, pottery, cylinder seals, and their correlation in different sites. The earliest form of religion are represented on cylinder seals and walls of a symbol representing the god Ihnana, goddess of love and war, and a man in a boat. The man in a boat could represent procession of gods or of a cultic journey by ship. In ancient Sumer, fishermen and marsh dwellers, date palm cultivators, cowherds, shepherds, and farmers all had their special groups of gods. There were many kings of the Sumerian civilization. While the king of a Sumerian city lived in a

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