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The Sumerians
Economy
Cattle: sheep, goat, and pigs.
They traded wheat, barley, and tools for timber, minerals and metals (minerals were used to make jewelry or tools)
Crops: wheat, barley and dates.
Social Classes
Kings, priests, warriors and government officials
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The middle class consisted of merchants, farmers, fishers and artisians
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Religion
They were polytheists, they worshipped many gods
Location
They built the first cities in Southwest Asia, including Ur, Uruk and Eridu. They controlled the lower part of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys
Contributions
Mathematics (they created a system of numbers based in 60), technology and writing (cuneiform) For river travel, Sumerians developed the sailboat. They built the first cards which were pulled by donkeys
Politics
they had a monarchy, they had kings and Queens, and after the King died his son took over
Fall
By 2400 B.C., Sumer's city-states, were weakened by conflict the primary caus was a decline in agricultural production, by the time the declining population had left the sumerians severely weakend. Following an Elamite invasion and sack of Ur Sumer came under Amorite rule
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Valentina Martínez, Andrea Camacho, Diego Higareda
