The Sumerians were characteristically inventive, and are likely to have been responsible for the development of the first writing. Well before 3000 B.C.E., Sumerians were recording their language using simple pictures. They wrote on tablets of clay, later evolving the script that to us is known as cuneiform, or "wedge-shaped."
Known for their innovations in language, governance, and architecture, the Sumerians are credited with creating a civilization as we understand it today. He ruled the region for nearly 2,000 years until the Babylonians conquered the region in 2004 BC. Their homeland in Mesopotamia, called Sumer, arose some 6,000 years ago along the flood plains between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq and Syria.
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