When did the Sumerians Live?
Sumer
was
in the lower part of Mesopotamia,
which is
now known as Iraq. The Sumerians
inhabited this
place before 3,500 B.C. and held power till about 2,000 B.C.
The place
of origin of Sumerians is not known, but probably they came from present day
Iran or Turkey.
They built
cities like Eridu, Uruk and
Ur. The
ruins of Uruk have
shown us the earliest form of writing which was done on clay tablets. Initially,
Sumerians wrote
in pictograms, which are
stylized drawings
of
objects. Later,
they began using simpler symbols
which represented
sounds. The Sumerians were
very fine
craftsmen too.
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