Education and Its Impact on the Administrative (Economic) System in Sumer

Abstract

Education in Sumer constitutes one of the main pillars that contributed to the development of Sumerian civilization through daily practices in the processes of buying and selling as well as archiving all matters related to trade, which contributed to the development of education and the development of its stages throughout ancient times.

Perhaps the invention of writing specifically in southern Mesopotamia (the city of Warka) was among the race of civilizational development that the region witnessed, which had a great impact on the transfer of Sumerian civilization beyond its geographical borders, and this invention was not associated with any emergency transformation, borrowed or even an outsider, but came as a result of the cultural accumulation of the historical depth of Mesopotamia in general and Sumer in particular.

   The level of civilization of the city of Warka was sufficient in the invention of writing and the use of the most widespread clay material and other matters related to writing, such as drawing pictures or writing symbols or syllables on it when it is soft and then left to dry has contributed to the recording of daily life and the spread of learning throughout the country of Sumer and Akkad and spread to the countries of the ancient Near East. 

  The clay was not the only material on which the writing was recorded, but there were many materials, including stone, which is the longest-lived in the types of writing, and the Assyrians were famous for this type of writing and were able to write down all the joints of learning and its fields (political, economic, social and even diplomatic), which made them preserve a large number of cuneiform texts in various languages and dialects.

 This study relied on the narrative and analysis of cuneiform texts that specialized in the educational aspect and its impact on the Sumerian civilization, as it was clear in this aspect and contributed to the processes of buying and selling, inventorying the number of livestock, observing, selling and buying, so the researcher found it necessary to shed light on