CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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the Standard of Ur
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written records
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canals
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dinosaur bones
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Detailed explanation-1: -14. What evidence found by archaeologists shows that Sumerians were not prehistoric? 15. This image shows cuneiform, the written language of the Sumerians.
Detailed explanation-2: -The history of Sumer spans the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods. Sumer was the region’s earliest known civilization and ended with the downfall of the Third Dynasty of Ur around 2004 BCE.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first written language in Mesopotamia is called Sumerian. Most of the early tablets come from the site of Uruk, in southern Mesopotamia, and it may have been here that this form of writing was invented. These texts were drawn on damp clay tablets using a pointed tool.