Ancient Sumerians secret of economics

The Sumerian Empire held its capital city in Sumer which would be present day Iraq. The Empire was known to have existed during the years of 3500BCE and 3000BCE as a huge Empire that controlled much of Asia. The belief system also consisted of many demi-gods and had many references to astronomical events. In the 1830s German archeologist found what is known as the Sumerian tablets, in these tablets are stories that are similar to biblical stories. For instance the biblical story starts the human life off with Adam and Eve gods’ creations. The Sumerian tablets explain a story about a figure Enki and how he created the first man from clay mixed with spittle and the blood of a dead “god”. It is stated that he created seven men and seven women. In another Sumerian story it relates to the Garden of Eden and speaks about a figure called Ninhursag and how she created a beautiful garden of lush vegetation and fruit trees. Another figure in another Sumerian story was Ningshzida the son of Ninazu the god of the underworld. Ningshzida was a prince of the underworld and patron of medicine and had been the earliest holder of a symbol representing snakes twinning around an axial rod; it predates the Caduceus of Hermies and the staff of Moses which were both later representations of that symbol. Ningshizda was also represented by the bashmu dragon, which is a type of snake with horns. The snake was often seen by ancients as having the ultimate power on earth by a mortal because the snakes venom could heal, kill or cause illusions in vision. Another Sumerian story was about Gilgamesh. This story was similar to Noah of the ark in the bible. The Sumerian story describes a meeting between Gilgamesh and Utnapishtim who had been forewarned of a cataclysmic event caused by the ‘gods’ destined to occur and advised Gilgamesh to build a boat and load it with everything he could find. The story continues exactly like the biblical story of Noah as Gilgamesh loads up animals and waits out the storm in a large boat only to rebuild the population. Where the Sumerian story differs to biblical concept is the reference to god and the Anunnaki, which is portrayed as an advance civilization that came to earth to colonize the planet. The story explains how Enki the chief scientist and Ninhursag the chief medical officer merged the genes of Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens for the purpose of being the slaves of the Anunnaki and do the mining of natural resources they needed to ship back to their home planet. These tales are believed to date back to 400,000BCE, however they were only found by archaeologist in the 1830s. Little is truly known about civilizations that might have or did exist 400,000 years ago, but history does know that a Sumerian culture existed from 3500BCE to approximately 3000BCE.The Sumerian Empire was a nation limited to natural resources which made it highly dependent on expansion, which made it dependent on using the power of the gods to sustain loyalty among its citizens. Operating much like the Egyptian Empire, the Sumerian rulers took it one step further to demonstrate their connection to the gods over the average peasant. Like the rulers of the Egyptian Empire, the Sumerian rulers were highly educated in mathematics’ and over time compiled information that the upper class was able to use to study and learn new aspects of life. Through mathematics rulers learned how to calculate the movement of astronomical objects such as the sun, moon and the planet Venus. This knowledge gave rulers a huge advantage over their citizens as rulers were able to predict cosmic movements such as eclipses. This came in handy in places like Sumer where years of drought could cause a serious damage to the nation’s economy as crops would spoil and famine would hit the population sending a threat of rebellion from the civilians. In times like these an eclipse was a savior to a ruler as he would take the opportunity to tell the civilians that the gods were upset with them because of ‘their’ poor work and disobedience. The ruler would convince the people that in order to please the gods a noble warrior would have to be sacrificed. This allowed a ruler to assemble an army to attack another neighboring tribe and the warriors of the conquered tribe that were caught would be that sacrifice. Through this tactics a ruler not only avoided a rebellion within his own kingdom, but also managed to take over additional land opening up new resources for his empire. The women of the tribe were sold to men of the empire to be wives and concubines, while the sons that were born from these women would be asserted into the empires military.