The temple was the largest, tallest and most important building in the city, in accordance with the theory accepted by the Sumerian religious leaders and going back no doubt to very early times that the entire city belonged to its main god, to whom it had been assigned on the day the world was created. ---taken from The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character The excerpt above provides evidence for which of the following statements? Sumerian architecture spread to other civilizations.
Sumerians established a number of independent cities.
The Sumerians believed in a theocratic system of government.
The Sumerians created one of the earliest systems of writing.