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Position:Home>History> Are sumerians same as "mesopotamians"?Question: Are sumerians same as "mesopotamians"!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: No, Sumerians were Mesopotamians but not all Mesopotamians were Sumerians!. Mesopotamia is the area around Iraq & Syria today!. There were also Babylonians , Akkadians and many others in the area throught history!.Www@QuestionHome@Com yes and no!.only in the case of geographical presence and chronological intervention through wars and usurping original populational ethnic and cultural dichotomies!.the original sumerians were called sagagga"black headed people",a swath of archaeologists suspect that they are connected within the african/asiatic gene pool and in the case of mesopotamia,there was an intemediary epoch where a divergent group of people were converged simultaneously,the earlist of which were the biblical elamites,also from an african/asiatic originWww@QuestionHome@Com sumerians came firstWww@QuestionHome@Com |