Those times Sumer had a great many monarchs who ruled with wisdom and creation. But the most outstanding among them was Ur-Nammu. Within the years of his governance Ur swiftly grew and developed in prosperity. Perhaps this was due to cautious and deliberate planning for future crops and other public necessities. He set one of his zikkurates close to the river side in the place where its soil was fertilized in profusion thus harvest amounts of crops and other eatables was very high so as it was sufficient to feed not only farming people, but everyone in this city, and agriculture was not obligatory to everyone thus certain amount of people could concentrate on other spheres and needs of the city while agriculture could take less people to its needs. Before that everyone had to do farming in order to feed himself and his family only. With Ur-Nammu other important cases, for example city security, craftsmanship, construction and scripting, were drawn special attention to.
According to the scripts found by modern archaeologists Sumer people worships more than 2000 different gods and goddesses. This number is quite big since every citizen had its own unique god, under whose protection he existed. At the same time every citizen had his own opinion on all other main gods. But they say that the most important among all gods was Sumer god of the Moon - Nanna. Numerous crafted moons were founded in practically every zikkurat which can support that belief. There are also many clay jars with wedge writing according to which modern scientists can scrape together describing of citizens' work - bricklayers, blacksmiths, carpenters, cookers, doctors and some others. There are also mentions of educational structure in which first came school for children and then educational institutions for adults.
A British archaeologist Charles Leonard Woolley was an outstanding scientist who did diggings in the city of Ur. He began in 1922, and a year later he found a royal burial ground. He published some of his findings thus giving peculiar facts about Ancient World and made his contribution to History. Perhaps his first digging in 1923 played a key role in modern archaeology. He was also the first to study cuneiform writing, in which he pointed out more than 2000 symbols. He supposed that every country had its own group of scribers and schools for scribing. According to his opinion first scripts were of zikkurates related origin, but later with scripting development the scribers put down stories and legends which were previously of word-of-mouth render. Altogether it gave birth to scripting development and literature as we know it today.
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