The history of Sumer spans through the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods. Sumer was the region's earliest known civilization and ended with the downfall of the Third Dynasty of Ur around 2004 BCE.

2017年12月7日 · Sumer was an ancient civilization founded in the Mesopotamia region of the Fertile Crescent situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Known for their innovations in language, governance,...

2011年4月28日 · Sumer was the southernmost region of ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq and Kuwait) which is generally considered the cradle of civilization. The name comes from Akkadian, the language of the north of Mesopotamia, and means “land of the civilized kings.”

2019年10月9日 · Sumer was the southern counterpart to the northern region of Akkad whose people gave Sumer its name, meaning “land of the civilized kings”. The Sumerians themselves referred to their region simply as “the land” or “the land of the black-headed people”.

2024年12月8日 · Sumer, site of the earliest known civilization, located in the southernmost part of Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in the area that later became Babylonia and is now southern Iraq, from around Baghdad to the Persian Gulf. A brief treatment of Sumerian civilization follows.

2020年11月10日 · Who Were the Ancient Sumerians? Sumer was humanity's first great civilization. Even in today’s society you can still find traces of Sumerian inventions in agriculture, language, mathematics, religion and astronomy. A Sumerian king of Ur recorded around 2600 B.C. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Sumer (/ ˈsuːmər /) is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.

2023年3月4日 · Invented by the ancient Sumer people, cuneiform writing system emerged more than 5,000 years ago. As a result, it is seen as the world’s first-known written language. And for over 3,000 years, the writing system dominated the landscape.

2023年3月30日 · Sumer was the first civilization in human history. Its impact can be seen in later societies that emerged in the region, such as Babylonia and Assyria. Sumerian achievements in areas such as agriculture, writing, and mathematics were groundbreaking.

2019年10月24日 · Sumer was the site of what is sometimes called an urban revolution affecting the entire Near East, lasting about a millennium, and leading to changes in government, technology, the economy, and culture, as well as urbanization, according to Van de Mieroop's A History of the Ancient Near East.