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  • EDITION:
    3rd Edition
  • ISBN:
    0812212762
  • ISBN-13:
    9780812212761
  • PUB. DATE:
    April 1988
  • PUBLISHER:
    University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
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History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History / Edition 3 by Samuel Noah Kramer, Hiroshi Tanaka

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L'Histoire commence a Sumerby Anonymous

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Which civilization used the first law system, the first discount on customs tax? The first proverbs and the first love song? The answer is Sumer. Most of the stories of Sumerians can be linked to the Bible and Quran stories. In 39 different areas of Sumerian contributions to the humanity can be found in the book. The book is great if you are interested in the first greatest nation of the world. I...

Sumercalifrajilisticexpialodocious!by Anonymous

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Sumer was Armenia, not some country that never existed. The Armenian king Aram lived at the same time as the Sumerian king Sargon, and was known for the same exact achievments that Sargon had. There is not one history book that tells of Armenia fighting Sumer, (although we did fight Assyria, Babylonia, and Egypt) which shows that we were as old as the other countries and that Armenia was Sumer. At...

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History Begins at Sumer

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  • Pub. Date: April 1988
  • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
  • Sales Rank: 428,352
  • Lexile: 1370L What’s This?

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Which civilization had the first system of law? The first formal educational system? The first tax cut? The first love song? The answers were found in excavations of ancient Sumer, a society so developed, resourceful, and enterprising that it, in a sense, created history. The book presents a cross section of the Sumerian "firsts" in all the major fields of human endeavor, including government and politics, education and literature, philosophy and ethics, law and justice, agriculture and medicine, even love and family.

History Begins at Sumer is the classic account of the achievements of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq during the third millennium B.C. They were the developers of the cuneiform system of writing, perhaps their greatest contribution to civilization, which allowed laws and literature to be recorded for the first time.

Biography

Samuel Noah Kramer was Clark Research Professor Emeritus of Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was also Curator Emeritus of the Tablet Collections.