Sumerians

At Wesley College, we studied World History in Form 1. So we learnt about the Sumerians and empires such as the Mongol, the Quing, those of Persia, Greece, Rome and the Ottoman.

Going still further back, the Project 2025 writers could argue that the “Top Down, One Boss” model worked well for the Babylonians, Sumerians Egyptians for all those great millennia when women knew their place well (with their cats in the case of widows).

History is littered with impressive cultures that didn’t get it right, sealing their doom—from the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia to the Hohokam of the American Southwest.

According to the Sumerians, Enlil requested the creation of a slave race, but then got tired of their noise and tried to kill them by sending a flood.

A form of writing known as cuneiform emerged among the Sumerians around 3500–3000 BC.

Beer brewing was very important to the Sumerians.

From around 2500 BC onwards, the Sumerians wrote multiplication tables on clay tablets and dealt with geometrical exercises and division problems.

Name The two ancient Sumerian words "Salu-ki" translate into "plunge-earth." citation However, there is no evidence the breed was referred to by the Sumerians with this name nor what "plunge to earth" might have meant in reference to the Saluki.

Others have suggested a continuity of Sumerians, from the indigenous hunter-fisherfolk traditions, associated with the Arabian bifacial assemblages found on the Arabian littoral.

Professor Juris Zarins believes the Sumerians may have been the people living in the Persian Gulf region before it flooded at the end of the last Ice Age.

She held that the "temple" was created by Sumerians about 2700 BC.

Sumerians first used clay tokens sealed in a clay vessel, then clay writing tablets to represent the amount—for example, the number of goats, to be delivered.

Sumerians had a list of types of vitriol that they classified according to the substances' color.

There is also anecdotal evidence the Sumerians may have used a type of slide rule in astronomical calculations.

There is evidence that the Sumerians and Babylonians used some version of the diatonic scale. citation citation This derives from surviving inscriptions that contain a tuning system and musical composition.

The Sumerians also posed philosophical questions, such as: Who are we?, Where are we?, How did we get here?

The Sumerians borrowed their copper terminology from the Hurrian vocabulary.

The Sumerians' cuneiform script is the oldest (or second oldest after the Egyptian hieroglyphs ) which has been deciphered (the status of even older inscriptions such as the Jiahu symbols and Tartaria tablets is controversial).

The Sumerians engaged in siege warfare between their cities, but the mudbrick walls were able to deter some foes.

The Sumerians had a lighter, two-wheeled type of cart, pulled by four asses, and with solid wheels.