Beliefs
The Sumerians originally practiced a polytheistic religion.the sumerians beleived in many gods that belief in many gods is called polytheism.each sumerian god was thought to have natural power over something, such as floods or human activity such as weaving.
Sumer technology
The innovations that were made in Sumer are wagon wheels to help carry people and goods from place to place .Another invention was the plow, which made the work of preparing land for planting,and the sailboat replaced muscle power with wind power .Sumerian people developed a 12-month calendar based on the cycles of the moon.
Sumer geography
Sumer was located in the southermost part of Mesopotomia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers,in the area that later became Babylona and is now southern Iraq from around the persian gulf. Sumer today is now called southern Iraq.
Time period
sumerian writing
By 3000 B.C. many city-states developed in Sumer .
probably the greatest sumerian invention was writing. writing is important because it helps people keep records and pass them on their ideas to others.
people in sumer developed writing to keep track of business deals and other events. their writing was named cuneiform.it consisted