Politics of Sumer Civilization

A council of nobles mainly governed city-states. Also an assembly of citizens governed political affairs. Later kings arouse to claim themselves as the military leaders and the highest priest in that city-state. The king was who represented the city-state deity. The Sumerians also believed that most of the land belonged to the city-states god or goddess. The king enforced laws and set penalties for wrong doers. Although there was some type of punishment, it wasn't severe-meaning any physical injury to the body, they were only fined. This proves that Sumer wasn't just monarchy but also theocracy government. City-states began to struggle for power among them causing, some city-states dominated certain areas for centuries. Those named the highest, the king and nobles, consisted in the center of the city. Around them were the merchants, then the farmers, and on the most outer wall were the peasants. When war would arrive the peasants would arrive in the inner wall for protection.

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