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Jim Webster writes
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Where is Sumer?

was rather than is.

the home of what was probably the first civilisation, based on the
two
rivers of the Tigris and Euphrates, now southern Iraq. The Sumerians
were the ones that the Babylonians copied.
One city name that might ring a bell from sunday school is Ur.

weren't the akkadians even earlier?

nah, Sumer & Akkad, the Akkadians were the scruffy barbarians off the
plains who came to gawp at the great cities and stayed to rule them. It
was the Akkadians who built competing Sumerian city states into an
Empire which may well have included all of modern Iraq and much of
Syria, and may even have reached Turkey and the med (accounts vary.)
The Akkadians had the sense to spot a good culture and stuck with it,
continuing to use Sumerian writing, bureaucracy and similar, and indeed
it is a bit tricky to spot who absorbed whom.

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