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 four earliest centers of historical civilization stretch diagonally across south Asia into Africa. They are defined by their writing systems. The earliest is in Sumer (or Sumeria), where we now have evidence of a long pre-history of writing.