The Sumerians
The Sumerian civilization is the earliest known civilization on Earth. For the first time, people controlled their physical environments. The Sumerians knew that they had to control the Tigris and Euphrates… More »
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Sumer (Sumerian: ������ "Land of the Lords of Brightness", Akkadian: Šumeru ; possibly Biblical Shinar ) was a civilization and historical region in southern Iraq (Mesopotamia). It is the ear...
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Consequently, the turn of the 4th to 3rd millennium is to be accepted, with due caution and reservations, as the date of the flourishing of the archaic civilization of Uruk and of the invention of writing. ... The Sumerian word for ruler, excellence is lugal, which etymologically means "big person." The first occurrence...
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The ways of life in Mesopotamia to 2400 BCE. ... Early in Sumerian civilization, eighty to ninety percent of those who farmed did so on land they considered theirs rather than communal property. Here too the Sumerians were expressing a trend that was common among others.
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The Sumerian civilization emerged upon the flood plain of the lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers about 4000 B.C. The social structure of the Sumerians was decidedly different from other societies of that and later times.
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; Sacred Journeys; Stories, Meditations, Initiations, Music Files ... MIDDLE EAST INDEX ... Background and History - Sumerian King List...
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A page listing several resources of interest to those people studying Ancient Sumer ... Resources; Ancient and Lost Civilization - Sumer; Mesopotamian Texts Archive; The Nippur Expedition: Holy City of Nippur; Sumerian Language Page; Sumerian Mythology; Ziggurat of Marduk...
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as even... the earliest Sumerian temples were, they represented... but the tip of the iceberg, of the scope and richness... of the material achievements... of the first great civilization... ... Continue to Sumerian Civilization 2...
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As we contemplate the great Sumerian civilization, we find... that not only are our morals and our sense of justice, our laws and architecture, our arts and technology... rooted in Sumer, but the Sumerian institutions...
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