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Sumerians

People of antiquity

Also known as Sumers

Instance of: historical ethnic group
Part of: classical antiquity
Founded: 45th century BCE

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Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the 5th and 4th millennium BC. Like nearby Elam, it is one of the cradles of civilization, along with Egypt, the Indus Valley, the Erligang culture of the Yellow River valley, Caral-Supe, and Mesoamerica. Living along the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Sumerian farmers grew an abundance of grain and other crops, a surplus of which enabled them to form urban settlements. The world's earliest known texts come from the Sumerian cities of Uruk and Jemdet Nasr, and date to between c. 3350 and c. 2500 BC, following a period of proto-writing c. 4000 – c. 2500 BC.

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Continent: Asia
Indigenous to: Sumer
Religion or worldview: Sumerian religion
Ended: 2300 BCE
Language used: Sumerian

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