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sumerian::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | babylonian |
sumerian:: | Spocien Dictionary
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| Derivation | sumer |
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Sumerian geodesy divided latitude into seven zones between equator and pole.
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Sumerian masonry was usually mortarless although bitumen was sometimes used.
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Sumerian traders invented sailboats so they could travel long distances.
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Sumerian structures were made of plano-convex mudbrick, not fixed with mortar or cement.
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Sumerian myths were passed down through the oral tradition until the invention of writing.
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Sumerian cities practised intensive, year-round agriculture from ca.
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Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh describes vast tracts of cedar forests in what is now southern Iraq.
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Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian were spoken, and written in cuneiform, for a similar period.
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Sumerian literature is the literature written in the Sumerian language during the Middle Bronze Age.
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- A member of a people who inhabited ancient Sumer
- Of or relating to ancient Sumer or its inhabitants
- (sumer) an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC
- Sumer (/u02C8suu02D0mu0259r/) was the first urban civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, modern-day southern Iraq, during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze ages, and arguably the first civilization in the world.
- Su00FCmer may refer to:
- (Sumer) Earliest known civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia
- (Sumerians) An Ancient Near Eastern people living in Mesopotamia during the third and second millenniums BC, speaking an agglutinative, ergative language unrelated to any other known language. The writing system they developed (cuneiform) was later borrowed by the Babylonians and Assyrians.
- (Sumerians) People who migrated into Mesopotamia c. 4000 b.c.e.; created first civilization within region; organized area into city-states. (p. 31)
- (Sumerians) The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. ...
