History Of The Sumerians

Sumerians was the southernmost region of Mesopotamian modern day it is on Iraq and Kuwait. The oldest Mesopotamian cities founded by a people called Sumerians during the fourth millennium B.C.E. Sumerian city of Uruk was the first city in the Sumerians also it is the largest city in the world. People from Uruk built cities in northern Syria and Southern Anatolia. From the historical records, Sumerians were rule by monarchs in some form. In Assyria, the king serves as chief priest; in Babylonia, the priest hood was separate from royalty. The Sumerians invented the writing system now known as Cuneiform because of wedge shaped marks they write on the clay tablets with a cut reed stylus. The Sumerians writing system was several thousand characters.