Sumer

archaeologists have found limited evidence. While the Sumers had a not-so-whopping population of 18,000 per city, the Olmecs had from 20,000 to 50,000 people that lived in one city. Apparently the hemorrhagic fever, Cocoliztli, did not make much of a dent in the Mesoamerican civilization. Surprisingly, both civilizations did not move as often as we do. As a result, they flourished…

However, some aspects of Sumerian culture were adopted by these invading peoples and so, Sumerian civilization continued to influence life in Mesopotamia. One of the first to invade Sumer were the Akkadians around 2330 BC. Under the ruler Sargon I, he created the first permanent army. He used this army to conquer all of Sumer and formed the world’s first empire; Sargon’s Empire. It stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. The Akkadians adopted cuneiform from the Sumerians which…

The next invention we are going to talk about is mathematics. Since Sumer was flourishing, people needed a way to calculate and keep track of trades, so they developed mathematics. According to ancienthistorylists.com, it says, “Sumerians were the first people on earth to develop the concept of counting.” The Sumerians based…

two rivers meet, with-in Babylonia is Akkad and Sumer. Akkad was located in the northern part of Babylonia while Sumer was located in the south in the channel of the river system. According to Robert A. Guisepi in his article Sumeria, Ancient Sumeria (Sumer), A History of Ancient Sumer Including its Contributions; Sumer was “broken by river channels teeming with fish and re-fertilized frequently by alluvial silt laid down by uncontrolled floods, Sumer had a splendid agricultural potential if the…

goddesses that competed with one another; anthropomorphic was the human form with their own personalities and unique traits; and pantheistic was animate or inanimate with divinity (Matthews et al., 2014). The Mesopotamia history began with the city of Sumer, Ur possibly one of the biggest cities ruled by King Gilgamesh that established roughly a dozen city-states by the fourth millennium B.C. (Andrews, 2015). The Sumerians were the first cultural civilization to develop powerful city-states…

wheat and raise cattle; the Southern areas are rich in soil for farming. There were a lot civilizations during this time such as the Sumer, Akkad, Babylon and Assyria. The Sumerians were a native land. Babylonia was cultural and religious and was subjected to the Akkadian Empire. Today, this region is called Assyria. However, the Akkadians were an empire that replaced Sumer as a spoken language.…

we would still be somewhat blind to the workings of ancient Mesopotamia. We get the rare look at the culture and religion from the eyes of an individual living through the time. Another aspect that I have not seen much research on is how life in Sumer and Akkad could have been different if Enheduanna did not act as a mediator. What would have happened if King Sargon and his family did not rule as long as they did? Throughout the excavations of ancient Mesopotamia, archeologists have discovered a…

languages such as Sumerian, Elamite, Eblaite, Old Assyrian, Old Babylonian and other Akkadian dialects, Proto-Hattic, Hittite, Luwian, Palaic, Hurrian, Urartian, Ugaritic, and Old Persian. Not all of these writing systems stemmed solely from ancient Sumer but all had features in common and fall…

diverse cities ever formed, we refer to the city of Uruk. Uruk is arguably one of the most important cities in ancient Mesopotamia. According to the Sumerian King List, King Enmerkar founded it at around 4500 B.C. It is located in the southern region of Sumer, a very dry yet surprisingly rich and bountiful location. The city is most famous for its powerful and memorable king Gilgamesh and his dream of becoming immortal but also to develop a number of new innovations for his civilization. The…

Surprisingly, Ur was a city of significant prosperity and wealth, yet steeped in the worship of idols. Before God could use Abraham, He had to remove Abraham from his homeland. The ancient city of Ur was located in Mesopotamia, in a region called Sumer, which is in modern day southern Iraq. Today the site of Ur is known as Tall al Muqayyar (Arabic for “mound of pitch”) and is approximately 160 miles from the head of the Persian Gulf. During Abraham’s day, Ur was located very close to the…