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- Sumer is a Babylonian and Sumerian city in the Civilization games (and, in the Call to Power games, an Assyrian city) from which the Sumerian civilization takes its name. In real life, it is a region in present-day Iraq where one of the first human civilizations arose.
- Sumer (or Shumer, Sumeria, Shinar, native ki-en-gir) formed the southern part of Mesopotamia from the time of settlement by the Sumerians until the time of Babylonia. Sumerian pre-cuneiform script dates to no later than about 3500 BCE.
- Shinar also known as Sumer is an area that many parts of early Genesis took part in. It is located in the fertile crescent and also part of Mesopotamia. The Sumerians were led by Nimrod who was in charge of the world due to the fact that everyone lived in Sumeria. Nimrod was also in charge of having the Tower of Babel built. After the dispersion of mankind across the earth Nimrod may or may not have still been in charge of the Sumerians. The Sumerians achieved many accomplishments including, hot water, flushing toilets, indoor plumbing, writing and the wheel.
- Sumer (Image:Speakerlink.svgiImage:Speakerlink.svgiImage:Speakerlink.svgi/mər/; from Akkadian Šumeru; Sumerian 𒆠𒂗𒂠 ki-en-ĝir15, approximately "land of the civilized kings" or "native land") was one of the ancient civilizations and historical regions in southern Mesopotamia, modern-day southern Iraq, during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. Although the earliest forms of writing in the region do not go back much further than c. 3500 BCE, modern historians have suggested that Sumer was first permanently settled between c. 5500 and 4000 BCE by a non-Semitic people who spoke the Sumerian language (pointing to the names of cities, rivers, basic occupations, etc. as evidence). These conjectured, prehistoric people are now called "proto-Euphrateans" or "Ubaidians", and are theorized to ha
- Sumer was a folkship in southern Bearithland that orded umb 3500 B.C., along the Tigris and Euphrates riths. Sumer is well-known for its runes, which were shapen by grooving threenook reeds into wet clay slabs. They also infound the wheel and the 24 log and 60 shortlog daymete. Sumer meanships were faded into town ethels and reded by a bedesman or a king. One of the bremest towns was Ur.
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| - Sumer (Image:Speakerlink.svgiImage:Speakerlink.svgiImage:Speakerlink.svgi/mər/; from Akkadian Šumeru; Sumerian 𒆠𒂗𒂠 ki-en-ĝir15, approximately "land of the civilized kings" or "native land") was one of the ancient civilizations and historical regions in southern Mesopotamia, modern-day southern Iraq, during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. Although the earliest forms of writing in the region do not go back much further than c. 3500 BCE, modern historians have suggested that Sumer was first permanently settled between c. 5500 and 4000 BCE by a non-Semitic people who spoke the Sumerian language (pointing to the names of cities, rivers, basic occupations, etc. as evidence). These conjectured, prehistoric people are now called "proto-Euphrateans" or "Ubaidians", and are theorized to have evolved from the Samarra culture of northern Mesopotamia (Assyria). The Ubaidians were the first civilizing force in Sumer, draining the marshes for agriculture, developing trade, and establishing industries, including weaving, leatherwork, metalwork, masonry, and pottery. However, some scholars such as Piotr Michalowski and Gerd Steiner, contest the idea of a Proto-Euphratean language or one substrate language. It has been suggested by them and others, that the Sumerian language was originally that of the hunter and fisher peoples, who lived in the marshland and the Eastern Arabia littoral region, and were part of the Arabian bifacial culture. Reliable historical records begin much later; there are none in Sumer of any kind that have been dated before Enmebaragesi (c. 26th century BCE). Professor Juris Zarins believes the Sumerians were settled along the coast of Eastern Arabia, today's Persian Gulf region, before it flooded at the end of the Ice Age. Sumerian literature speaks of their homeland being Dilmun. Sumerian civilization took form in the Uruk period (4th millennium BCE), continuing into the Jemdat Nasr and Early Dynastic periods. During the 3rd millennium BCE, a close cultural symbiosis developed between the Sumerians (who spoke a language isolate) and the Semitic Akkadian speakers, which included widespread bilingualism. The influence of Sumerian on Akkadian (and vice versa) is evident in all areas, from lexical borrowing on a massive scale, to syntactic, morphological, and phonological convergence. This has prompted scholars to refer to Sumerian and Akkadian in the 3rd millennium BCE as a Sprachbund. Sumer was conquered by the Semitic-speaking kings of the Akkadian Empire around 2270 BCE (short chronology), but Sumerian continued as a sacred language. Native Sumerian rule re-emerged for about a century in the Third Dynasty of Ur (Sumerian Renaissance) of the 21st to 20th centuries BCE, but the Akkadian language also remained in use. The Sumerian city of Eridu, on the coast of the Persian Gulf, was the world's first city, where three separate cultures fused — that of peasant Ubaidian farmers, living in mud-brick huts and practicing irrigation; that of mobile nomadic Semitic pastoralists living in black tents and following herds of sheep and goats; and that of fisher folk, living in reed huts in the marshlands, who may have been the ancestors of the Sumerians. The irrigated farming together with annual replenishment of soil fertility and the surplus of storable food in temple granaries created by this economy allowed the population of this region to rise to levels never before seen, unlike those found in earlier cultures of shifting cultivators. This much greater population density in turn created and required an extensive labour force and division of labour with many specialised arts and crafts. At the same time, historic overuse of the irrigated soils led to progressive salinisation, and a Malthusian crisis which led to depopulation of the Sumerian region over time, leading to its progressive eclipse by the Akkadians of middle Mesopotamia. Sumer was also the site of early development of writing, progressing from a stage of proto-writing in the mid 4th millennium BCE to writing proper in the 3rd millennium BCE (see Jemdet Nasr period).
- They did stuff.
- Sumer is a Babylonian and Sumerian city in the Civilization games (and, in the Call to Power games, an Assyrian city) from which the Sumerian civilization takes its name. In real life, it is a region in present-day Iraq where one of the first human civilizations arose.
- Sumer (or Shumer, Sumeria, Shinar, native ki-en-gir) formed the southern part of Mesopotamia from the time of settlement by the Sumerians until the time of Babylonia. Sumerian pre-cuneiform script dates to no later than about 3500 BCE.
- Shinar also known as Sumer is an area that many parts of early Genesis took part in. It is located in the fertile crescent and also part of Mesopotamia. The Sumerians were led by Nimrod who was in charge of the world due to the fact that everyone lived in Sumeria. Nimrod was also in charge of having the Tower of Babel built. After the dispersion of mankind across the earth Nimrod may or may not have still been in charge of the Sumerians. The Sumerians achieved many accomplishments including, hot water, flushing toilets, indoor plumbing, writing and the wheel. Abram was from the city of Ur which was located in Sumer. Even though they had many things we had today it was not as good or efficient as our stuff today. The Sumerians built cities for their gods and in each city was a Ziggurat built to honor the god the city was built for. Not only were Ziggurats a place of worship they were also a place of, business meetings, farming, trading and other events. Sumeria was eventually conquered by the Akkadians.
- Sumer was a folkship in southern Bearithland that orded umb 3500 B.C., along the Tigris and Euphrates riths. Sumer is well-known for its runes, which were shapen by grooving threenook reeds into wet clay slabs. They also infound the wheel and the 24 log and 60 shortlog daymete. Sumer meanships were faded into town ethels and reded by a bedesman or a king. One of the bremest towns was Ur. Their clothing was made of wool or flax. Men were barechested and wore skirt-like cladding, tied at the waist; women wore girdles from shoulders to ankles, right arm and shoulder left unheled. Both could have long hair and often gilded their cladding with hursts.
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