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History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine "Firsts" in Recorded History - Couverture souple

Kramer, Samuel Noah

 
9780812212761: History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine "Firsts" in Recorded History
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0812212762 ISBN 13 : 9780812212761
Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988

Synopsis

Which civilization had the first system of law? The first formal educational system? The first tax cut? The first love song? The answers were found in excavations of ancient Sumer, a society so developed, resourceful, and enterprising that it, in a sense, created history. The book presents a cross section of the Sumerian "firsts" in all the major fields of human endeavor, including government and politics, education and literature, philosophy and ethics, law and justice, agriculture and medicine, even love and family.

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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À propos de l'auteur

Samuel Noah Kramer was Clark Research Professor Emeritus of Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was also Curator Emeritus of the Tablet Collections.

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Éditeur
University of Pennsylvania Press
Date d'édition
1988
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0812212762
ISBN 13 
9780812212761
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
3
Nombre de pages
416
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