Sumer
[su:mə]
Definition
(noun.) an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC.
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Examples
- To begin with, China, like Sumer and like Egypt, was a land of city states. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In an inscription recording his irrigation work in Sumeria and Akkadia, he begins: When Anu and Bel entrusted me with the rule of Sumer and Akkad----. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The early rulers of Sumer we know were all priests, kings only because they were chief priests. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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