-Sumerian gods represented elements of nature
-oldest surviving big story- "Epic of Gilgamesh" (about a great flood)
-first divided one hour into sixty minutes then to a minute into sixty seconds
-organized the calendar based on moon cycles
-a ziggurat is a Sumerian temple, built on top of a "mountain" of earth
-ziggurats can act as a city halls, religious ceremony place, and it technically most important place in the town/village
Civilization in Mesopotamia:
-wondering nomads (someone who wonders from place to place), drove herds (domesticated animals) in many areas, especially to the south of Sumer in Arabia
-Sumer was conquered by Akkadians c (2350 BC)- their goods took the place of previous gods and were all forced to worship them
-king Hammurabi of Babylon created the laws known as "Hammurabi's Code of Laws"
-these laws were extremely harsh
for example: if you break someones tooth by accident yours has to get ripped out as well
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