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The Sumerians: History of the World's First Civilization | Sleep Story
Drift off to the complete history of the Sumerians — the world's first civilization. Rising in the river valleys of Mesopotamia over 5,000 years ago, the Sumerians invented writing (cuneiform), built the world's first cities, created the first legal codes, and laid the foundation for all subsequent civilization.
Covered: Origins in Mesopotamia, the city-states of Ur, Uruk, and Eridu, invention of cuneiform writing, Sumerian religion and the ziggurat temples, the Epic of Gilgamesh, Sumerian mathematics and astronomy, the Akkadian conquest, and the Sumerian legacy.
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