Ensi, written pa-te-si, was a title for the rulers of the ancient
Sumerian city-states. That was the live representation of the gods
for the people too, meaning that the functions of ruler and priest
were mixed into the same person.
Scribes
The main function of a scribe is to record
and complete all necessary documentation
for the duration of the patient's stay.
Tasks
They lived in different social categories, but they had
tasks such as: politicians, farmers, potters,
carpenters, jewelers, militars, metalsmiths and
traders.
Inventions
wheel
It was invented by the Sumerians in
3500 b.C. It was used for carriots. The
first wheel was made up of clay, rock
and mud
chariot
It was a boat propelled by
sails, it was used for fishing
or moving in rivers and
seas
plow
It was used by armies as transport or mobile
archery transport, for hunting or racing
sailboat
It was used to do branches in the
ground to cultivate things
Writing
the first official
writing
The First Civilization
Sumer
Sumer, located in Mesopotamia, is
the first known civilization,
developing the first city-states in the
4th millennium BCE.
City States
What were the Sumerian city
states like?
They all had a building called a ziggurat, a large
pyramid-shaped building with a temple at the top, dedicated to
a Sumerian deity, built cities along the rivers. The farmers in
Sumer created leeves to hold back the floods from their fields
and cut canals to channel river water to the fields. The use of
levees and canals is called irrigation, another Sumerian
invention.
Mention the most
important ones.
They didn’t create any empire, but they create a great
civilization. They formed lots of city states with an own
government
Did the Sumerians create empires?
The first Sumerian cities and the most important, were
Eridu, Uruk, Ur, Larsa, Isin, Adab, Kullah, Lagash, Nippur,
and Kish.