What Exactly Is Sumer The First Civilization?

Is Sumer the first civilization? Civilization means a stage of human development that is considered most advanced, and I think that Sumer was very advanced, and could have been the first civilization. Their artifacts show evidence of many inventions that would have helped them in their everyday life. Many of the Sumerians stunned us with their ability to create useful inventions in their time period, and with the resources that they had. Sumer was most likely one of the first civilizations and they had evidence that showed me that they were very developed.

One of the inventions that the Sumerians invented that could show evidence of them being the first civilization includes the sculpture of a chariot. The sculpture includes a man in a chariot, who is a soldier, with four donkeys. The chariot happens to have wheels, which would have been an enormous jump in technology. Technology is one of the several elements of civilization. The wheel was an invention that changed their lives and made them
This artifact was the clay tablet. The tablet I noticed had many different shapes and patterns on it, which could have been pictographs. It says later that the scribes from the Temple of Bau recorded the amount of barley that families would receive from the government. That shows examples of the elements of civilization. It shows us that they had a stable food supply, they had some form of writing, and that they had some sort of government. They probably had a stable food supply because the tablet is for recording the amount of food each person gets. They probably also had a strong form of writing because their form of writing was of pictographs, which was a way of communicating and writing at the time. Lastly, they probably had a stable government because the Sumerians’ food was coming from the government. This is a great example of