The Sumerians originally practiced a polytheistic religion, with anthropomorphic deities representing cosmic and terrestrial forces in their world. The earliest Sumerian literature of the third millennium BC identifies four primary deities: An, Enlil, Ninhursag, and Enki.
The democratic value Franklin used was "All men are by nature free and equal." He wanted his audience to have an emotional feeling about the topic, so that the audience can have a different attitude towards the so called "savages"
