By the late 4th millennium BC, Sumer was divided into about a dozen independent city-states, whose limits were defined by canals...
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Sumerian City - U In the Sumerian city, the ziggurats stood like modern skyscrapers over the city. Some ziggurats stood 70 feet tall. Later the ziggurats became more than a place for gods. There were workshops for craftworkers. For the priests, they were temples to do worship.
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As Sumerian cities grew in population and expanded, the swamps that insulated city from city disappeared. Sumerians from different cities were unable or unwilling to resolve their conflicts over land and the availability of water, and wars between cities erupted -- wars the Sumerians saw as between their gods.
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ZIGGURAT The ziggurat was a temple. It was located in the center of each Sumerian city-state. It housed the city-state's patron god. The term ziggurat means "mountain of god" or "hill of heaven." Since the ziggurat was a sacred place, only priests could enter it.
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UrNammu consolidated his control by defeating the rival dynast in Lagash and soon gained control of all of the Sumerian city-states (A) ... The Third Dynasty of Ur came to an end when the Elamites destroyed the city-state and captured Ibbi-Sin (2029-2002) and deported him to Elam (Excerpt 60) ...
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Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur edited by Richard L. Zettler, Lee Horne, and Donald P. Hansen. Ur was a Sumerian city-state. Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic: Sumerian Origins of the Flood Myth by Robert M. Best. Reconstruction of a lost story about a Sumerian king named Ziusudra whose city was submerged by a flood.
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Sumer ; Sumerian: ki-engir; Akkadian: shumerum These city-states were independent entities, that often waged war against each other, but there were also wars against a unity of them and Akkad (north) and Elam (east). Central in every city was the temple, and every city had its own deity, that was believed to protect...
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civilizations that thrived or was affected by agriculture. They were, the Sumerian City-states,...
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that the Sumerian Rulers... could assume the throne, only with the approval of the Gods. He also recorded conquests of another city, revealing the existence of other "city - states" in Sumer.
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