... ruled by its own king and worshiped its own patron deity. The citizens of these city-states were classified into three classes: nobles and priests, commoners, and slaves. In the center of a Sumerian city usually stood a tower culminating in a temple for the patron god of the city. The Sumerians believed that this patron god owned the whole city. The Geography of ... ...

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... Sumerian steles, statues, plaques and thousands of clay cones, tablets and fragments inscribed in the Sumerian language" (Kramer 122). In addition, an excavation done at Nippur, which is Sumer's cultural center, produced 30,000 more tablets and fragments. The majority of these items, primarily the tablets, had representational pictographs and symbols that signified numbers and were the forerunners of cuneiform script ... ...

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