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Sumerian Civilisation

c. 4500–1900 BCE

Sumerian civilisation developed in southern Mesopotamia through city-states, temple institutions, irrigation agriculture and the earliest known writing systems.

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It supports nonfiction and historical fiction concerned with Sumerian civilisation, including political institutions, conflict, social change and later historical memory.

Non-Fiction

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