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The Sumerians settled in the area known as Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, around 5,000 years ago. They produced many fundamental changes to the way in which human societies developed - these were the first city-builders, the first people to use wheeled vehicles, the first methodical astronomers, and the first people to develop a sophisticated written language. The Sumerians also produced art, music, and literature as well as created some of the first professional soldiers the world had ever seen.
But for all that we know about the Sumerians, one central mystery remains We have no idea where the Sumerians came from when they suddenly arrived in Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago. Many people have put forward answers ranging from the plausible to the esoteric to the (literally) out of this world, but none of the solutions suggested to date appears to provide a complete or final answer.
From this audiobook you will learn about...
- The Black Heads Arrive
- The Conquest of Sumer
- Sumerian Society and Religion
- Technology and Writing
- Music and Art
- Mysteries of the Sumerians
- And much more!
When looking at how Homo sapiens have developed from primitive tribes of hunter-gatherers to today's urban dwellers, the Sumerians represent one of the biggest and most dramatic single periods of change ever achieved by the human race. This is the story of the advanced, ingenious, and mysterious Sumerians.
Download The Sumerians A History from Beginning to End Audible Audio Edition Hourly History Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr Books
"I wish I had read the negative reviews more closely. This is not a book, it is more like a pamphlet with some information about the Sumerians, without maps, illustrations, listed author(s), page numbers, edition/print information, sources, bibliography, etc. It doesn't have a Library of Congress entry, or any other information that could give a clue of who wrote it. Reading Wikipedia would have been more informative and free. The "book" even lists Wikipedia as the source of the cover photo.
It contains exceedingly dubious statements, such as that the word "legal" comes from the Sumerian "lugal" while in fact comes from the Latin "legalis". Then it bring up the far-fetched possibility that the Sumerians could have been extraterrestrials, presented on pretty much equal footing with any other theory about their origins. This is a completely useless "book"."
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The Sumerians A History from Beginning to End Audible Audio Edition Hourly History Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr Books Reviews
- This book includes a lot of information about this ancient civilization. I've been reading books on the subject. I recently read a book by Russian archaeologist Yuri Shilov that suggests that there was a civilization much older than Sumer, and it existed in modern day Ukraine. The civilization is called Aratta. Sumerian writings mention Aratta, so it did exist and the Sumerians knew of it. This would be my first guess as to where the Sumerians came from. The gods of the Arattans were the same as the gods of the Sumerians, gods like An, Enki, Enlil. Shilov seems to have made an open and shut case proving where the Sumerians came from, until someone refutes it, which of course is possible.
Asking where the Sumerians came from is less interesting than asking why they were so developed. Why did they know much more about astronomy than every other civilization? Why were they so far ahead? How do you go from being hunter gatherers to using irrigation systems, having a written language, dividing the hour into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds? The only answer that seems to make any kind of sense at all is that they didn't discover all of these things. They were taught these things. Hunter gatherers aren't going to discover astronomy and divide minutes into 60 seconds. That's insane. It seems like it should be obvious to a five year old that someone taught the Sumerians. So there was an advanced civilization on earth long before the ancient Greeks and Egyptians and Sumerians.
Who was it? Was it Atlantis? Was it extraterrestrials? These answers, Atlantis and extraterrestrials, provide the only reasonable possibilities that I know of. There is a great prejudice in our culture against taking either Atlantis or extraterrestrials seriously. Academia's reaction would be ridicule. But it's the best we've got, so academia had better change its attitude pretty damn fast. What we have is Atlantis or extraterrestrials. That's what we're stuck with now, so we'd better start taking both of them very seriously and stop laughing.
By "Atlantis" I mean any advanced civilization similar to the legends we all heard, whether or not it was in the Atlantic Ocean or identified itself as Atlantis. And if that's the answer, how did they get so evolved?
We really seem stuck with either extraterrestrials or supernatural creationism. What the hell else is there that would fit the bill? I'm thinking there's nothing else. And the fact that our culture resorts to ridicule angers me. There's actually nothing farfetched about the possibility of extraterrestrials appearing anywhere in the universe, or about supernatural beings "from another dimension" which we would call gods or creators or designers.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if we eventually found out that extraterrestrials appeared anywhere at all in our universe, in any galaxy, around any star. Why is that farfetched? it isn't. It's completely possible and reasonable.
Nothing farfetched about visitors from another planet coming to any damn place they want. We'll be doing that ourselves soon enough. Is it farfetched to believe that we ourselves exist? No? Then why would it be farfetched to believe that someone else does?
There is an intellectual cowardice in academia. Scared to take a reasonable possibility seriously because you will get laughed at. That's why Copernicus never came up with anything at all. He was scared of ridicule. No? - I wish I had read the negative reviews more closely. This is not a book, it is more like a pamphlet with some information about the Sumerians, without maps, illustrations, listed author(s), page numbers, edition/print information, sources, bibliography, etc. It doesn't have a Library of Congress entry, or any other information that could give a clue of who wrote it. Reading Wikipedia would have been more informative and free. The "book" even lists Wikipedia as the source of the cover photo.
It contains exceedingly dubious statements, such as that the word "legal" comes from the Sumerian "lugal" while in fact comes from the Latin "legalis". Then it bring up the far-fetched possibility that the Sumerians could have been extraterrestrials, presented on pretty much equal footing with any other theory about their origins. This is a completely useless "book". - It is a quick read with info about leaders and a little about the culture. It seems more questions can be answered if someone would decipher those millions of tablets. I don't know if it is important to think the Sumerians came from somewhere on boats, maybe they did. If someone believes in God, it is not implausible that they came out of nowhere. How are the other cultures in the area known about? That I am not sure of. I think some more pictures of artifacts or examples of the tablets and maps would make this a little more engaging. The figures on the cover are interesting. One looks like he is wearing a mask.
- A worthwhile, short read. Could have dealt a bit more on notable Sumerian literature, e.g., the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the connection to the Old Testament.
- The Sumerians showed up 5,000 years ago by ship to Mesopotamia from somewhere but no one can say where. They brought writing, a complex language unrelated to any other, wheeled vehicles, bronze ( the smelting of copper & tin), trading, irrigation, the potter’s wheel, farming and the concept of cities and brick buildings, art and musical instruments and musical notations. They were the 1st to recognize that 12 lunar cycles of one month approximately equal one solar year. They invented the game of checkers. Where they came from is still a mystery.
- This book is very informative about the highest points of Sumerian civilization. If gives information from different perspectives and theories about their origins. If you were ever interested about the origins of human civilization this book will give an insight so you could further research.
- This is a very brief introduction to Sumeria and the Sumerians. It covers all the top-level bases well but provides little detail and often raises more questions than it answers. If you're looking for a capsule history of the topic I'd recommend this book; but if you're expecting a deep dive into what we know and how we know it about the Sumerian people this work will leave you frustrated.
- I think that this book is an excellent introduction to Summerians. I'm looking to reading additional information from other
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