plants. Plants use most of the water they get form the soil for transpiration‚ but a portion of the water taken in is used during photosynthesis for producing the sugar and glucose necessary for plant to grow. A prime example of this would be in Sumer where the people would use a process know as irrigation to water their crops. They would dig ditches from a river to their crops to make sure they got water to grow. Another important key to a successful civilization is government‚ ability to keep
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Aaron Accardo AP Essay Mesopotamia‚ also known as the land between two rivers‚ became the grounds of many ancient civilizations that we know about today. Perhaps one of the most famous is Sumer. Sumer was a civilization that thrived off of the two river‚ the Tigris and the Euphrates. Using irrigation systems‚ the Sumerians used the floods of the rivers produced to grow crops and support the growing population. This civilization grew into an early form of a modern city‚ with things like business
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show their face around the area now known as Egypt and some parts of Europe around the Mediterranean. These were said to be some of the earliest and most advanced civilizations of their time. These civilizations were known as Ancient Egypt‚ Ancient Sumer and the Babylonians. <br> <br>The oldest and certainly one of the most advanced was ancient Egypt. The people of ancient Egypt were polytheistic and believed that their Pharaoh (King) was god as well and held divine right. The people also believed
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The first true civilization of Sumer came into being between 5900 and 2500 BCE of the Ubaid and Uruk cultures in Mesopotamia in what is now modern day Iraq. Although somewhat rigid‚ each member of the ancient Sumerian civilization had their own duties‚ talents‚ rights‚ and wealth according to his or her place in this unique society. While the peoples of Sumer upheld all of its nearly 1500 gods as according to their shared religion‚ discordance was common. Each individual city-state saw their
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B. Property 6. People had inhabited the Sumer region since the 5000’s B.C. 7. The more powerful city states conquered their neighbors and became small kingdoms‚ including Kish‚ Lagash‚ Umma‚ Ur‚ and Uruk. 8. Sometime during the 2300’s B.C‚ Uruk controlled all of Sumer for a brief time until Sargon of Akkad conquered Sumer. 9. Shortly before 2100 B.C‚ Ur won control first of Sumer and then of nearby Assyria and Elam. 10. But Semites
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on earth grew. Sumer was an ancient civilization in Mesopotamia they created cuneiforms. Cuneiforms were the world’s first written language; Sumerians invented this writing system to keep track of business dealing (document 2). Mesopotamia developed between the Euphrates and Tigris River. Geographically‚ Mesopotamia occurred near major rivers since water was easily available and agriculture flourished. The most important invention that was created in the ancient times by Sumer in Mesopotamia
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instruments were found with the arms of their female players still wrapped around the strings‚ as if the women were playing the lyres until their final breath‚ nearly 5‚000 years ago. The Bull-Headed Lyre was built in the Early Dynastic period of Ancient Sumer‚ dating to about 2‚600-2‚400 BCE. It is made of cedar wood‚ and wrapped and plated in gold and lapis lazuli‚ with bitumen used as a sort of glue. The bull head crowns the inlaid sound box and is plated in gold while the beard of the bull is wrapped
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The ancient civilizations of the Nile Valley and Sumer are considered to be the beginning of life in their respected regions. The following essay will provide a look into the similarities between these two great societies. The Nile Valley civilization began as early as early as the Paleolithic Age‚ and a Neolithic culture was formed there around 6000 B.C. By about 3800 B.C. the people of this region began to take steps toward creating an actual civilization. The people discovered how to make copper
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today‚ we know of about twenty-five Ziggurats. Located in Sumer‚ Babylonia and Assyria‚ some of them are larger than others‚ such as the Ziggurat at Elam‚ while others are better preserved‚ such as the Ziggurat at Ur‚ which was partially reconstructed to preserve much of its former glory. The great Tower of Babel was even associated with the ziggurat of the great temple of Marduk in Babylonia (2013 Merriam-Webster). At the Tell Asmar in Sumer‚ great statues carved from soft stone stand in its shrine
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China has been the oldest continuous civilization on Earth? The Sumerians‚ Egyptians‚ and Chinese created flourishing civilizations filled with many achievements in writing‚ architecture‚ and technology that made lasting contributions to humankind. Sumer is referred to as the "cradle of civilization” because there were many important inventions. Writing was one of Sumerians most important invention. Sumerians developed the world’s first known writing‚ cuneiform‚ which was also known as the written
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