CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Question
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The people of Sumer were polytheistic.
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The gods existed to serve the people of Sumer.
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The gods were seen as unimportant in daily life.
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Merchants attended church weekly to please the gods.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Sumerians originally practiced a polytheistic religion, with anthropomorphic deities representing cosmic and terrestrial forces in their world. The earliest Sumerian literature of the third millennium BC identifies four primary deities: An, Enlil, Ninhursag, and Enki .
Detailed explanation-2: -The most important Gods and Goddesses in the Sumerian pantheon included An, the God of Heaven, Enlil, the Storm and Wind God, Enki, the Water God, Ninhursag, the Goddess of Fertility and The Earth, Utu, the God of justice and of the Sun, and his father Nanna, God of the Moon.
Detailed explanation-3: -People in Mesopotamia believed in polytheism, or the belief in many gods. Poly means “many", and theism means “god or gods". The Sumerians knew they did not have control of the wind, air, sun, or other elements, so they knew a higher power must control those things.