Sumerians

Sumerians are thought to have designed the fields of Goa because as these follow their measure till date.

The wealthier Sumerians often wore beautiful gold and silver bracelets and earrings.

Sumerians also wore necklaces with bright, precious stones.

Urik, Mesopotamia - Sumerians invent writing.

Sumerians are believed to have modified many local customs and introduce their own systems e.g.the temple building style, the Devadasi system, they also influenced the language, the caste system and the kinship practices to some extent.

Sumerians (who spoke a language isolate) remained largely dominant in this synthesised Sumero-Akkadian culture however, until the rise of the Akkadian Empire under Sargon the Great in 2334 BCE which united all of Mesopotamia under one ruler.

The Akkadian Empire (2334 - 2154 BC) saw the Akkadian Semites and Sumerians of Mesopotamia unite under one rule, and the Akkadians fully attain ascendancy over the Sumerians and indeed come to dominate much of the ancient Near East.