because it was considered the holy commandments of the gods. Sumerians began to take interest in science, as well as epics, like the Epic of Gilgamesh.
             Though these people hold the record as one of the first true civilization, they tended to be very warlike. The Sumerians lived in a bad geographical area, one that was easy to attack. War and conflict with other tribal people was a constant issue for the Sumerians. However, as they invented irrigation techniques to prevent flooding and provide water to dry areas, the people began to bond togther. Irrigation is main factor that infuenced Mesapotamian developement.
             Overall, the Sumerian thought patterns and ideas seem like a good way to began civilization. Before then, people were nomadic and barbarically unsettled. Of course, because of their lack of rational thinking, they were very mythepoic and perhaps even animistic. They didn't take credit for their own actions. It was all about the fate that the unloving gods had destined for them.
             Because of their devotion to the gods, death shouldn't be a fear. But because the Sumerians saw reality in the fact that the gods were unfeeling, death was terrifying. They didn't believe in the afterlife, thus their lives would be purely insignificant. They were bonded through religion, but a downpoint is that they simply didn't see or consider reason as a possibility.
             Though these people saw a way to civilization, They were very blinded in their thought patterns. Life wasn't questioned. It was lived. Death was the ultimate end. Gods didn't love you personally or care, unless they wanted something for their own sel
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