نظام الحكم في العصر السومري القديم (2800-2371 ق. م)‎

الملخص EN

The emergence of the role of a political leader can not be away from the influence of the surrounding especially the religious, social and political environments.

In this sense the ruling emerged in the ancient Sumerian society, which is controlled by the primarily religious reality of the temple dominant and dominant and influential in all aspects of an individual's life Sumerian, appeared priest or cleric someone commander directed at the beginning of it.

However, the nature of the Sumerian society was a society based on agriculture, primarily, in addition to the complexity of life and the breadth of the areas of this aspect necessitated it need someone manages these economic matters separately from religious matters, it has both sides needed people full-time for each side separately, the priest at the temple and a man of politics and economics in the palace.

And over time it became the ancient societies going through a difficult and complex conditions as a result of the evolution of life, including foreign wars, or economic and social crises, which requires the selection of individuals manage their intelligence and hard work and their ability to make the appropriate decisions for they are the true leaders, appeared the king or, according to the Sumerian expression ((Lu – gal)) "the strong man ".