![]() The First Schools, The First Case of `Apple Polishing’, The First Case of Juvenile Delinquency, The First `War of Nerves’, The First Bicameral Congress, The First Historian, The First Case of Tax Reduction, The First `Moses’, The First Legal Precedent, The First Pharmacopoeia, The First `Farmer’s Almanac’, The First Experiment in Shade-Tree Gardening, Man’s First Cosmogony and Cosmology, The First Moral Ideals, The First `Job’, The First Proverbs and Sayings, The First Animal Fables, The First Literary Debates, The First Biblical Parallels, The First `Noah’, The First Tale of Resurrection, The First `St. In his work, History Begins at Sumer, Samuel Noah Kramer lists 39 `firsts’ in human civilization and culture that originated at Sumer. The Sumerians are responsible for inventing many of the aspects of modern-day life that people so often take for granted. They did not, however, possess the same kind of skill and ingenuity as the Sumerians who came after them. ![]() The Ubaid are considered the first agents of civilization in the region in that they had rudimentary technological knowledge as evidenced by tools and clay artifacts they left behind. The land was inhabited prior to 4500 BCE by people of unknown origin who archaeologists have designated the Ubaid people (after the site of al-Ubaid where excavations first uncovered their existence). 5000/4500-1750 BCE corresponding to modern-day Iraq and Kuwait. Sumer was the region of southern Mesopotamia c. Marble, early dynastic period, 2800-2300 BCE, Mesopotamia, Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq / Photo by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin, Creative Commons ![]() Inventing the FutureĪ statue of a Sumerian worshipper. If one accepts God’s role in creating day and night then the Sumerians finished the job and, if one does not, it was not God who divided night and day – it was the Sumerians. In the biblical Book of Genesis, chapter 1, it states that God divided the night from the day and saw that it was good. It was the Sumerians who divided the day from the night by time, by increments of sixty-second minutes and sixty-minute hours which made up twelve hours of night and the twelve hours of the day. People went to work from when the sun was positioned at a certain height in the morning sky and returned to their homes when it set. Before the Sumerians, a day began with the sunrise and ended with the sunset. How does one imagine something which does not exist?īoth time and writing, and many other aspects of our daily lives, were invented by the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia over 5,000 years ago. Once, however, there existed a time without time. We wake up at a certain hour, go to work or school at another, eat at regular times, and go to sleep based upon the revolutions of the clock. People live in time and time directs the course of people’s days. ![]() But how does one imagine a book in a world where even the concept of a `book’ does not exist? If one holds a book in one’s hands, one can imagine an e-book, a large-print book, a picture book, all kinds of books. Imagine something that has never been thought of before. Photo by Ficatus, Wikimedia Commonsīoth time and writing, and many other aspects of our daily lives, were invented by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia over 5,000 years ago. The inscription on the statue’s shoulder introduces it as the “King of Adab” and the statue is stated to have been devoted to E-shar, the temple of the chief god of Adab.
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