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History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Man's Recorded History
by: Samuel Noah Kramer

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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.

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 935.01
EAN: 9780812278125
Edition: 3rd
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0812278127
Label: University of Pennsylvania Press
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 388
Publication Date: 1981-09
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Studio: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Kramer's general introduction to Sumerian clay tablet literature

Along with Edward Chiera, Samuel Kramer is one of the most influential of early English-language Sumerologists, in part because of his extensive fieldwork, and in part because he published several popular accounts of his findings. Looking at this book I expected something like an account of early cultural and agricultural developments (earliest plow, barn, religious altar, etc) but that's not what this book contains.

Kramer is a philologist and concentrates single-mindedly in this ... Read More

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