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Sumerian Culture… continued from last week
November 30th, 2008 by admin
Sumerian villages were built on mounds with houses clustered together on narrow lanes. Some houses were two to three stories high and the Sumerians had learnt very early how to make bricks and dry them in the sun or a kiln. The cities were protected by a wall all around it and the poor people’s [...]
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Sumerian Culture
November 20th, 2008 by admin
Sumerians were people who inhabited southern Mesopotamia from around 3500 BC to 1800 BC. They had formed twelve city states, the most famous being Ur and Sumer. A common language called Sumerian was followed throughout these cities. Though there are no modern day descendants of Sumerians, Sumerian culture lives on mainly due to their inventions. [...]
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Sumerians and Art
November 3rd, 2008 by admin
More than 4000 years ago the Sumerians settled in the valleys of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. The Sumerians were the first human race to form a settlement and brought to an end the nomadic existence of humans till then. With settlement and forming of cities, the Sumerian inventions changed the way all of us [...]
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Sumerian Food
October 20th, 2008 by admin
Sumerians were the first culture to quit hunting and gathering food and begin cultivation. Like many other inventions that Sumerian culture gave to the world, they also contributed in farming and food. Sumerian food consisted mainly of barley. The raw material of most of Sumerian food was barley; barley cakes and barley paste were accompaniments [...]
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Sumerians: The Beginning of Inventions… continued from last week.
September 29th, 2008 by admin
Developing a writing system is perhaps the most significant of Sumerian inventions. It helped the Sumerians to communicate, contribute to literature and in book keeping. Cuneiform was the first form of writing developed by the Sumerians around 3200 BC. Clay tablets were used as paper and a stylus like implement was used to draw wedge [...]
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Sumerians: The Beginning of Inventions
September 22nd, 2008 by admin
Our lives and world as it is today owes a lot to the ancient Sumerian people. They were perhaps the innovators of most of the things we take for granted today. The Sumerians were the first to begin a human settlement of any kind and soon they began innovating and improvising in their day to [...]
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Hardly Ancient: Sumerian Clothing
August 31st, 2008 by admin
The ancient Mesopotamians or Sumerians were the people who established the world’s first civilization. They made numerous contributions to our present day modern world. Besides creating a city-state, writing system, water clock, wheel, the sailboat; they had also created the twelve month calendar based on lunar cycles. The Sumerian clothing was made of natural resources [...]
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Sumerians And The Beginning Of Civilization
August 23rd, 2008 by admin
Ancient Mesopotamia and the Sumerians were the first to witness settlement. Man had ceased being a nomad and began raising cattle, farming and developing their skills at a fast pace. Perhaps the most number of discoveries and inventions ever made were in the ancient era of the Sumers. Ancient Sumerian clothing evolved and changed over [...]
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