Sumer (irq)

Sumer

Sumer ranks 4,393rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Montebelluna, Toshima, and Santiago del Estero. Memorable people born in Sumer include Nahor, son of Serug, Bethuel, and Nahor, son of Terah. Sumer has been the birth place of many religious figures, and politicians. Sumer is located in Iraq.

Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC. Like nearby Elam, it is one of the cradles of civilization, along with Egypt, the Indus Valley, the Erligang culture of the Yellow River valley, Caral-Supe, and Mesoamerica. Living along the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Sumerian farmers grew an abundance of grain and other crops, a surplus which enabled them to form urban settlements. The world's earliest known texts come from the Sumerian cities of Uruk and Jemdet Nasr, and date to between c. 3350 – c. 2500 BC, following a period of proto-writing c. 4000 – c. 2500 BC. Read more on Wikipedia