History
fromWorld History Encyclopedia
2 days agoSumer: The Cradle of Civilization
Sumer, in southern Mesopotamia, served as the cradle of civilization where cities, writing, and agrarian society first developed from earlier Ubaid settlers.
The semimythical Sumerian King List (composed circa 2112 to circa 2004 BCE) claims that, when kingship was established on earth by the gods, it descended from heaven to the city of Eridu, linking the concepts of law and order with that of the city, a paradigm that would continue throughout Sumerian civilization. Sumer was the southern counterpart to the northern region of Akkad,
One of the most southerly sites, at the very edge of the alluvial river plain and close to the marshes: the transitional zone between sea and land, with its shifting watercourses, islands and deep reed thickets.