shiitake | Chinese black mushroom | golden oak mushroom | Oriental black mushroom | Lentinus edodes. An edible eastern Asian mushroom (Lentinus edodes) having an aromatic, fleshy, golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible tough stipe.efinition: an edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe. plant noun. shitakes. fungus Â» organism Â» living thing Â» whole.
Sumer (/ËsuËmÉr/) was one of the ancient civilizations and historical regions in southern Mesopotamia, modern-day southern Iraq, during the Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze ages.ruk, one of Sumer's largest cities, has been estimated to have had a population of 50,000-80,000 at its height; given the other cities in Sumer, and the large agricultural population, a rough estimate for Sumer's population might be 0.8million-1.5million.
The name Mesopotamia comes from the Greek language and means the land between the rivers. These two rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates. The plain, broad area of flat, open land, that is located between the two rivers is a region called Sumer and spreads over more than 10,000 square miles. The Sumerians By 3000 B.C., 12 Sumerian cities dotted the Mesopatamian plain, they were known as city-states and were made up of a city and the surrounding villages and farmland that it controlled. The earliest Sumerian city-states were ruled by priests and the largest structures built were temples. The religion of Sumer was polytheism, the belief in many gods.