Sumer
an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.
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How to use Sumer in a sentence
Now there are words like pro-Sumer and everything else out there—my preferred term for it is ‘a creator economy.’
Also, the Bible clearly places the Garden of Eden “eastward,” near the Mesopotamian empire of Sumer.
The northern cities were embraced in the territory known as Akkad, and the southern in the land of Sumer, or Shumer.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. MackenzieLet us take six gentlemen met together to learn the old thirteenth-century part-song, the round entitled ‘Sumer is icumen in.’
English Costume | Dion Clayton CalthropThe earliest 'burden' known is that in the ancient Round 'Sumer is icumen in,' of the 13th century.
Shakespeare and Music | Edward W. Naylor
After a quarter of a century had elapsed, Akkad and Sumer were overswept by the fierce Gutium from the north-eastern mountains.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. MackenzieHe was welcomed in Babylon, which opened its gates to him, and he had himself proclaimed king of Sumer and Akkad.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. Mackenzie
British Dictionary definitions for Sumer
/ (ˈsuːmə) /
the S region of Babylonia; seat of a civilization of city-states that reached its height in the 3rd millennium bc
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