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- SUMERIAN CIVILIZATION: 3500 BC
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- The Sumerians dug irrigation canals, built the
- world's first cities and developed a written language
- called cuneiform. They worshipped three powerful gods
- who were Nanna (known as Sin by the Babylonians) the
- Moon god who traveled in a crescent shaped boat,
- Shamash the goddess of the Sun, and Ishtar the
- goddess of fertility (analogous to Astarte) who lived
- in the bright morning "star", Venus. By 3000 BC, the
- Sumerian calendar accurately predicted the changing
- of the seasons.
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