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Sumer

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akkadnoun	One of the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia, located in northern Babylonia.
sumar	an electoral alliance constituted for the 2023 Spanish general election, founded by Spanish second deputy prime minister and labour minister Yolanda Díaz, provisionally registered as an association on 28 March 2022 and publicly unveiled on 18 May.
sumerianoun	(archaic, poetic) Sumer.
akkadian empirenoun	(historical) The first ancient empire of Mesopotamia after the long-lived civilization of Sumer.
uruk periodnoun	(historical) A period between circa 4000 to 3100 BC which saw the emergence of urban life in Mesopotamia and the Sumerian civilization.
mesopotamianoun	(historical) A geographic region in southwest Asia, spanning from the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, located in modern Iraq, eastern Syria, and southeast Turkey; the site of one of the most ancient civilizations in the history of man.
assyrianoun	(historical) An ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and at times an empire, extant from the mid-23rd century BCE to 608 BCE and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, but at its maximum extent including parts of modern Iran, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Egypt).
erechnoun	(biblical) The ancient city of Uruk.
sargonnoun	An Akkadian emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BCE.
larsanoun	an ancient city in Sumer, in modern-day southern Iraq, now an archeological site
sargonidnoun	A member of the ancient civilisation ruled by Sargon of Akkad.
ancient near eastnoun	The Near East from the 4th millennium BC until the Muslim conquests.
ancient greecenoun	The civilization that flourished around the Mediterranean Sea from the 3rd millennium to the 1st century BCE (including the first two European civilizations, Minoan and Mycenaean), known as the cradle of Western civilization.
ubaidnoun	(archaeology) A prehistoric period of Mesopotamia, circa 6500 to 3800 BCE.
subartunoun	A region of upper Mesopotamia in the Bronze Age, which later came to be called Assyria.
protoliterate periodnoun	(historical) The Uruk period.
amoritenoun	A member of an ancient Semitic people who lived to the west of the Euphrates.
assyr.noun	Abbreviation of Assyrian. [(historical) Of or pertaining to the ancient region on the Upper Tigris river, with capital city of Assur.]
sargonidenoun	Alternative form of Sargonid. [A member of the ancient civilisation ruled by Sargon of Akkad.]
egyptnoun	A country in North Africa and West Asia. Official name: Arab Republic of Egypt. Capital: Cairo.