Sumer

(noun.) an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC.

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• To begin with, China, like Sumer and like Egypt, was a land of city states. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In an inscription recording his irrigation work in Sumeria and Akkadia, he begins: When Anu and Bel entrusted me with the rule of Sumer and Akkad----. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The early rulers of Sumer we know were all priests, kings only because they were chief priests. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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