In the following more than 1,000 years, it achieved remarkable accomplishments in politics, religion, art, science and technology ... its social development and cultural life during the Sumerian era, ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...