Crossword-Solution: SUMERIANS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SUMERIANS | anagram | USMARINES |
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| Early Babylonians | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EEMCAZ
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eruption
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Sentences with SUMERIANS (5)
THE SUMERIANS THE SUMERIAN NAIL WRITERS, WHOSE CLAY TABLETS TELL US THE STORY OF ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA, THE GREAT SEMITIC MELTING-POT THE fifteenth century was an age of great discoveries.
But the Sumerians, the earliest inhabitants of Mesopotamia, who had hit upon the idea of scratching their words in tablets of clay, had discarded pictures entirely and had evolved a system of V-shaped figures which showed little connection with the pictures out of which they had been developed.
This system of writing down our ideas looks rather complicated but for more than thirty centuries it was used by the Sumerians and the Babylonians and the Assyrians and the Persians and all the different races which forced their way into the fertile valley.
The Sumerians were entirely ab-sorbed by those races that entered the fertile valley at a later date.
They borrowed a few pictures from the Egyptians and they simplified a number of the wedge-shaped figures of the Sumerians.
Quotes with SUMERIANS (3)
Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans -- or even Romans, the most "modern" among people of antiquity -- they all placed the Golden Age, the Age of Truth, the rule of Kronos or of Ra or of any other gods on earth -- the glorious beginning of the slow, downward unfurling of history, whatever name it be given -- far behind them in the past.
120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1971).