The Sumerians

The Sumerians were the world's first recorded civilization. They brought forth a lot of what we use today. From what professional scholars have uncovered is that they were the first civilization to show intelligence of a Calendar, Mathematics, Crops, Writing, and so forth.

One of the main aspects of the Sumerians may be that they talked of "beings from the skies". What they wrote in their stone tablet literature was what they referred to as the "Annunaki", meaning, "Those from who the heavens came". It would make one wonder, with the Sumerians being almost 500,000 years old, that the fact they knew this stuff already, even the word "heaven" itself.

One important factor to point out is that they knew of our entire solar system, including the recently discovered Nibiru (or planet x). This is said to be the Annunakis home planet, and that Nibiru ends up revolving around a much larger orbit than ours, as it passes next to earth every 3600 years.

In that part of the Middle East called the Fertile Crescent, hunter-gatherers began planting gardens. By 7000 BCE there was farming, which required permanent settlement. By 4500 BCE, people archaeologists call Ubaidians were living in towns near where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers emptied into the Persian Gulf. The Ubaidians drained marshes. They grew wheat and barley and irrigated their crops by digging ditches to river waters. They kept farm animals. Some manufactured pottery. They did weaving, leather or metal work, and some were involved in trade with other societies.

This was Mesopotamia (Greek for "between two rivers"). It was around 4000 BCE that a people called Sumerians moved into Mesopotamia, perhaps from around the Caspian Sea. By 3800 BCE the Sumerians had supplanted the Ubaidians and Semites in southern Mesopotamia. They built better canals for irrigating crops and for transporting crops by boat to village centers. They improved their roads, over which their donkeys trod, some of their donkeys pulling wheeled carts. And the Sumerians grew in number, the increase in population the key element in creating what we call civilization -- a word derived from an ancient word for city.