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Act II: Sumerians
Most historians and archaeologists believe that the Sumerians were
Anatolians. Its probable they came from the southern part of the Black Sea
after Noah's flood and they initially lived in northern Mesopotamia and
slowly moved to the south.
The Sumerians moved to eastern Anatolia on the second half of the 5th
Millennium BC. They lived in Mesopotamia till 2000 BC. Later proceeded
by the Babylonian civilization. The Sumerians account of the flood may
have been based on the flooding of the Tigris, Euphrates., or both rivers
onto their already marshy country.
Sumerians called themselves saggi- ga black headed people.
Sumerians were highly innovative people. They invented writing 5500 years
ago (figure 1). The style of the writing was called cuneiform .
They also invented the wheel 5700 years ago (figure 3), and sausages 5000
years ago. They were the first people on Earth to live in cities and built
their homes with sun dried clay bricks and straw. They knew irrigation
and cultivated wild barley and wheat 7000 years ago.
Beer was invented by the Sumerians over 5500 years ago. Figure 4 shows a
seal found at UR which dates 5100 years ago . It depicts a gentlemen using a
straw to drink beer out of a common crock.
Scene 1 : A man and a passionate girl singing the very naughty The honey Man
song which is one of the earliest known lyrics written by the Sumerians (figure 2) and lyrics of sumerians.
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| Figure 1: Cuneiform writing of Sumerians on a sculpture. |
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| Figure 2: A Sumerian man and woman entertaining with music, dance
and song. |
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| Figure 3: A war panel showing Sumerians who invented The Wheel |
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| Figure 4: A Sumerian man drinking beer from a crock with a long straw. |
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