SUMERIAN CIVILIZATION

Achievements of the Sumerian civilization

Achievements of the Sumerian civilization

Introduction

The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Bubylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums Bc. In this paper we will discuss the achievements of Sumerian civilization and the problems that it brought.

Discussion

The people of Sumer had an unusual flair for technological invention. Even the earliest settlers had come upon the idea of irrigation, which made it possible for them to collect ...