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Dec 7, 2017 · Sumer was an ancient civilization founded in the Mesopotamia region of the Fertile Crescent, its people known for innovations in language, governance and more.
Most historians have suggested that Sumer was first permanently settled between c. 5500 – c. 3300 BC by a West Asian people who spoke the Sumerian language (pointing to the names of cities, rivers, basic occupations, etc., as evidence), a non-Semitic and non- Indo-European agglutinative language isolate.
Apr 28, 2011 · Sumer was an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia. What is Sumer famous for? Sumer is famous for several "firsts" in civilization including writing, the wheel, schools, proverbs, legal precedents, and even the first aquarium. Did the Sumerians invent time?
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Oct 9, 2019 · The Sumerians were the people of southern Mesopotamia whose civilization flourished between c. 4100-1750 BCE. Their name comes from the region which is frequently – and incorrectly – referred to as a “country”. Sumer was never a cohesive political entity, however, but a region of city -states each with its own king.
- Joshua J. Mark
Sumer. Sumer was an ancient civilization that existed in the southern part of Mesopotamia (modern-day southern Iraq) around 4,500 to 1,900 BC. It was one of the earliest civilizations in human history and made significant contributions to various aspects of human culture and civilization.
The ancient Sumerians, the "black-headed ones," lived in the southern part of what is now Iraq. The heartland of Sumer lay between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, in what the Greeks later called Mesopotamia. This territory, once skillfully irrigated, proved very fertile, and major cities had long been in existence before the period when ...
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