Sumerian people. Did they or do they exist? what are they all about?

Question

i sort of over heard someone on about them and became curious

Answer 1

The first people who created a society, or civilisation. Not indebted to any other people for their inventions or way of life (unlike the rest) for all practical purposes this is where it starts.
We still use their 24 hour and 360 degree systems. Hammaburi wrote the first known laws (in stone), and the first prose mythology (which included a story of a world wide flood) was Sumerian.
They came from the two rivers region of the Euphrates and Tigris .. where Iraq is now. Initially they were a collection of warring cities but eventually united and were one nation till the war-like Assyrians (Akkadians?) conquered them.
You can still see their artifacts in museums. Their little ivory statuettes of themselves, in their grass skirts and with their beatific otherworldly expressions are lurverly.
Much more interesting than the Greeks I fink, you can read a book about the Greeks or the Romans every day for the rest of your life, but there's a mystery and conjecture about the Sumerians which is very appealing.
(old history reader, occasionally).

Answer 2

Well it looks like the Sumerian were real for a long time period.. Then for whatever reason they just cease to exist... They were once a group of people that inhabit the Middle east... And they did have Social contact with the Jews and the ancient Egyptians and many other local tribes in their area... Their languages is considered to be a dead language... I believe that the Persians defeated them in combat and just took over every thing and all Sumerians just became Persians and just gave up their identity....................... No I don't believe that they were all killed off.. And only a few survived... But never the less for a period of time they were a very real group of people..........................................................

Answer 3

They were the ones who invented writing and left the first records of their civilization about 4000 BCE some say. The Babylonians came next and borrowed much from them. Later yet, there were Assyrians, Hittites, Hebrews, Medes, Persians, etc. in this general area. All of them were influenced by the Sumerians.

Answer 4

Yes, they did exist. They were in the area that is now southern Iraq, and they preceded the Babylonians. Some of their blood may still be somewhere in the peoples of that region, but their civilization was basically wiped out.

Answer 5

where do you start with these people so much to no about them..you may like to look up the dogon as well there much more interesting.basically the Sumerians seem to pop up 3000 BC.they invented law we still use some of there laws..theres just to much to say about them.think the akkadians killed them of eventually..the Sumerians or the summer people as they where known it would seem invented writing of a sort on clay tablets in pictographic style..and on and on we could go..they did lots sh1t

Answer 6

History-world.org/sumeria

Answer 7

Sumer was one of the first, if not the first, civilizations in the world. Pretty much a field of study in and of themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer

Answer 8

You should look up some of Zecharia Sitchin books.

Answer 9

of course they did. they were in the near east around the old terstament times

Answer 10

http://home.cfl.rr.com/crossland/AncientCivilizations/Middle_East_Civilizations/Sumerians/sumerians.html

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