Sumerian
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- noun
- /suˈmɪrɪən/
- The Sumerians created one of the first forms of writing, called cuneiform.
- Sumerians and Babylonians
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If asked about their culture, many Iraqis will recall their country's role as "the cradle of civilizations" and claim descent from Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians.
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The ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, and Assyrians all practiced slavery and defined slaves as property.
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Apparently the word interest first appeared in the Sumerian language.
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And she can understand Ottoman and Sumerian?
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Five thousand years ago, the Sumerians called it the paradise of Dilmun.
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About 1,000 years later, the Sumerians developed writing and organizational patterns.
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The Sumerians believed in a land of the dead... ...a dark and shadowy realm within the bowels of the earth.
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Other white peoples of the same times and about the same place were the Hittites, the Sumerians, and the Mitannians.
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Ancient Sumerians used to call the Gulf ofAqaba the "Dagger's Tip."
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The ancient Sumerians, with their sexagesimal (base 60) arithmetic, invented the double-twelve-hour timekeeping.
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A person from the ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
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Etymology
Sumerian comes from the ancient place name Sumer, a region in southern Mesopotamia where some of the first cities grew, so a Sumerian is a person 'from Sumer'.