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3 days ago · c. 5500 – c. 1800 BC. Preceded by. Ubaid period. Followed by. Akkadian Empire. Sumer ( / ˈsuːmər /) is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq ), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.
- Sumerian Language
Sumerian (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: Emeg̃ir, lit. ''native...
- History of Sumer
The history of Sumer spans the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in...
- Sumeria (Disambiguation)
Sumeria, or Sumer, is the region of city-states in ancient...
- Akkadian Empire
The Akkadian Empire (/ ə ˈ k eɪ d i ən /) was the first...
- Cradle of Civilization
Among the various cradles of civilization is Ancient Egypt....
- Caral-Supe
Reconstruction of one of the pyramids of Aspero. Caral–Supe...
- Talk
Iraq portal; This article is within the scope of WikiProject...
- Uruk Period
The Uruk period (c. 4000 to 3100 BC; also known as...
- Green Sahara
The Sahara was not a desert during the African humid period....
- Indus–Mesopotamia Relations
Indus–Mesopotamia relations are thought to have developed...
- Sumerian Language
5 days ago · Inuit (/ ˈ ɪ nj u ɪ t / IN-ew-it; Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland ...
3 days ago · Farther east, the issue is less contentious. Haplogroup N carriers account for a significant part of all non-Slavic ethnic groups in northern Russia, including 37% of Karelians, 35% of Komi people (65% according to another study), 67% of Mari people, as many as 98% of Nenets people, 94% of Nganasans, and 86% to 94% of Yakuts.
4 days ago · urj. Glottolog. ural1272. Distribution of the undisputed branches of the Uralic family at the early 20th century [1] [2] The Uralic languages ( / jʊəˈrælɪk / yoor-AL-ik; by some called Uralian languages / jʊəˈreɪliən / yoor-AY-lee-ən) form a language family of 42 [3] languages spoken predominantly in Europe and North Asia.
5 days ago · 18,000,000 people passed through the Gulag's camps 53 Gulag camp directorates (colloquially referred to as simply "camps") and 423 labor colonies in the Soviet Union as of March 1940 [4] The tentative consensus in contemporary Soviet historiography is that roughly 1,600,000 [b] died due to detention in the camps.
3 days ago · The Tuareg people (/ ˈ t w ɑːr ɛ ɡ /; also spelled Twareg or Touareg; endonym: Imuhaɣ/Imušaɣ/Imašeɣăn/Imajeɣăn) are a large Berber ethnic group that principally inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso.
3 days ago · A Kaqchikel family in the hamlet of Patzutzun, Guatemala, 1993. There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.
