Native Sumerian rule re-emerged for about a century in the Neo-Sumerian Empire or Third Dynasty of Ur (Sumerian Renaissance) approximately 2100-2000 BC, but the Akkadian language also remained in use. The Sumerian city of Eridu, on the coast of the Persian Gulf, is considered to have been the world's first city, where three separate cultures may have fused — that of peasant Ubaidian farmers, living in mud-brick huts and practicing irrigation; that of mobile nomadic Semitic pastoralists living in black tents and following herds of sheep and goats; and that of fisher folk, living in reed huts in the marshlands, who may have been the ancestors of the Sumerians. COUNT 5
QSN1 How long was there native Sumerian rule during the Third Dynasty of Ur? ANS1 about a century QSN2 When was the Third Dynasty of Ur? ANS2 approximately 2100-2000 BC QSN3 What language was in use in the Neo-Sumerian Empire? ANS3 Akkadian QSN4 What is considered to be the world's first city? ANS4 Eridu QSN5 How many cultures may have fused together in Eridu? ANS5 three