WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Sumerian civilization featured a social class/hierarchical system with a ruling class, upper class, middle class, working-class, and enslaved class. The ruling class of Sumer included the king and the high priests. The largest social class was the working class, which mainly comprised farmers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mesopotamia’s social pyramid was not unlike many later civilizations. Enslaved people were on the bottom, the lower class, then the middle class, and finally the upper class. The king and royals made up the top of the pyramid as the highest social class.

Detailed explanation-3: -The hereditary noble class were the kings, land-owning families and priests and priestesses and their families. Keep in mind that ancient Mesopotamia’s history stretches over 3000 years and includes many cultures: Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Sumerians were the first people to migrate to Mesopotamia, they created a great civilization. Beginning around 5, 500 years ago, the Sumerians built cities along the rivers in Lower Mesopotamia, specialized, cooperated, and made many advances in technology.