Government Of Sumer
Sumerian government started out with the creation of city-states. When argiculture developed people grouped together in cities. These cities all had one thing in common. They all had a special building called a Ziggurat at the center. Ziggurats were places of worship and gatherings and were very important for the Sumerians.
Priests also controlled these city-states. They had comntrol pver the canals for irigation and on trade plus were the servants of the gods. That gave them power over the others and allowed them to rule. |
As Sumer became more powerful, and the cities gained more and more wealth they shifted to a different form of government where instead of each city being ruled by a different priest, you had one guy in control of multiple cities. Here you start to see a shift from the independant cities to a unified nation.
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