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Article: Sumer
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- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Sumer and Sumerian civilization . The term
Sumer
is used today to designate the southern part of ancient
Mesopotamia
. From the earliest date of which there is any record, S Mesopotamia was occupied by a people, known as Sumerians, speaking a non-Semitic language. The questions concerning their origin cannot be answered with certainty. Some evidence suggests that they may have come as conquerors from the East (possibly from Iran or India). At any rate, as modern excavations have shown, there was in the 5th millennium BC a prehistoric village culture in the area. By 3000 BC a flourishing urban civilization existed. Sumerian civilization was predominantly agricultural and had a ...
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