History begins at Sumer / Samuel Noah Kramer
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TextSeries: Doubleday anchor books ; A175Edition: Anchor Books editionDescription: 247 pages, 17 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 19 cmUniform titles: - From the tablets of Sumer
- ARCH YNDC 190 K89H
- DS72 .K73x 1959
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Summary: 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
Education: First schools -- Schooldays: First case of "Apple-polishing" -- Father and son: First case of juvenile delinquency -- International affairs: First "War of Nerves" -- Government: First bicameral congress -- Civil War in Sumer: First historian -- Social reform: First case of tax reduction -- Law codes: First "Moses" -- Justice: First legal precedent -- Medicine: First pharmacopoeia -- Agriculture: First" Farmer's almanac" -- Horticulture: First experiment in shade-tree gardening -- Philosophy: Man's first cosmogony and cosmology -- Ethics: First moral ideals -- Suffering and submission: First "Job" -- Wisdom: First proverbs and sayings -- "Aesopica": First animal fables -- Logomachy: First literary debates -- Paradise: First biblical parallels -- Flood: First "Noah" -- Hades: First tale of resurrection -- Slaying of the dragon: First "St. George" -- Tales of Gilgamesh: First case of literary borrowing -- Epic literature: Man's first heroic age -- To the royal bridegroom: First love song -- Book lists: First library catalogue -- World peace and harmony: Man's first golden age
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Published in 1956 under title: From the tablets of Sumer
Education: First schools -- Schooldays: First case of "Apple-polishing" -- Father and son: First case of juvenile delinquency -- International affairs: First "War of Nerves" -- Government: First bicameral congress -- Civil War in Sumer: First historian -- Social reform: First case of tax reduction -- Law codes: First "Moses" -- Justice: First legal precedent -- Medicine: First pharmacopoeia -- Agriculture: First" Farmer's almanac" -- Horticulture: First experiment in shade-tree gardening -- Philosophy: Man's first cosmogony and cosmology -- Ethics: First moral ideals -- Suffering and submission: First "Job" -- Wisdom: First proverbs and sayings -- "Aesopica": First animal fables -- Logomachy: First literary debates -- Paradise: First biblical parallels -- Flood: First "Noah" -- Hades: First tale of resurrection -- Slaying of the dragon: First "St. George" -- Tales of Gilgamesh: First case of literary borrowing -- Epic literature: Man's first heroic age -- To the royal bridegroom: First love song -- Book lists: First library catalogue -- World peace and harmony: Man's first golden age
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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