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Maybe not a GGG, but this got me thinking. The population of the world around 1 AD was 200 million folks. The population when the Sumerian cities were founded (5000 BC) must have been 2 million or less.

I'm taking a rule of thumb that population before the industrial revolution was 1 billion from 200 million in 1 AD, due to more land being brought under cultivation. So 2000 BC population = 40mill, 4000 BC = 8 mil, and 5000BC = 4mil, but then agriculture only spread in 4000-2000 BC, and hunter-gatherer societies can support far fewer people, so the population of the world could have been as low as 1 million.

Anyway, can you imagine life in those days when setting up the cities of Sumeria? They were the only civilisation around! Europe was a big forest with next to no people (any peoples would have not been Indo-European definitely!), Rome, Greece were non-existent.

The pyramids and Stonehenge wouldn't be built for another 3000 years, Christ wouldn't be born for another 5000 years, Abraham wouldn't be born for another 3000 years.

These people were living in an empty world - they would have traded at the most with the Harappan civilisation (which I believe is linked to the Sumerian) and Elamites through Dilmun (Bahrain).

these people would have looked out on the oceans and the sand seas and wondered if there were any voices out there, just as we look into space.

What a people the Sag-gig-ga were!