CIVILIZATION
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Criminals and slaves
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Farmers and artisans
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Kings and priests
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Land owners and lawmakers
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Detailed explanation-1: -A social hierarchy developed in Sumerian city-states. Kings were at the top. Below them were priests and nobles. The middle ranks included skilled craftspeople and merchants.
Detailed explanation-2: -Beginning in the second millennium B.C., Babylonian theologians classified their major gods in a hierarchical numerical order. Anu was represented by the number 60, Enlil by 50, Ea by 40, Sin, the moon god, by 30, Shamash by 20, Ishtar by 15, and Adad, the god of storms, by 6.
Detailed explanation-3: -The highest was the king because he ruled all the people. The second highest were the scribes because they worked for the king, writing and recording events. The merchants were third highest because they traded or sold and bought goods for their civilization.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Gala (Sumerian: gala, Akkadian: kalû) were priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna. They made up a significant number of the personnel of both temples and palaces, the central institutions of Mesopotamian city states.