Question: The territory of the modern state of Iraq was defined in 1920 as Mandatory Iraq, its history includes much of the world's earliest writing, literature, etc, which type of literature is the literature written in the Sumerian language during the Middle Bronze Age?
Context: Persian literature (Persian: ادبیات فارسی‎ ‎ "adabiyāt-e fārsi"), comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and it is one of the world's oldest literatures.  It spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost.  Its sources have been within Greater Iran including present-day Iran, Iraq, the Caucasus, and Turkey, regions of Central and South Asia where the Persian language has historically been either the native or official language.  For instance, Mowlana Rumi, one of best-loved Persian poets, born in Balkh or Vakhsh (in what is now Afghanistan), wrote in Persian, and lived in Konya, then the capital of the Seljuks in Anatolia.  The Ghaznavids conquered large territories in Central and South Asia and adopted Persian as their court language.  There is thus Persian literature from Iran, Mesopotamia, Azerbaijan, the wider Caucasus, Turkey, western parts of Pakistan, India, Tajikistan and other parts of Central Asia.  Not all Persian literature is written in Persian, as some consider works written by ethnic Persians in other languages, such as Greek and Arabic, to be included.  At the same time, not all literature written in Persian is written by ethnic Persians or Iranians, as Turkic, Caucasian, and Indic poets and writers have also used the Persian language in the environment of Persianate cultures. French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French.  Literature written in French language, by citizens of other nations such as Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, etc. is referred to as Francophone literature.  As of 2006, French writers have been awarded more Nobel Prizes in Literature than novelists, poets and essayists of any other country.  France itself ranks first in the list of Nobel Prizes in literature by country. The territory of the modern state of Iraq was defined in 1920 as Mandatory Iraq.  It is centered on Lower Mesopotamia (corresponding to historical Babylonia, later also known as "ʿIrāq-i ʿArab") but also includes part of Upper Mesopotamia and of the Syrian Desert and the Arabian Desert.  Its history includes much of the world's earliest writing, literature, sciences, mathematics, laws and philosophies; hence its common epithet, the Cradle of Civilization. Sumerian literature is the literature written in the Sumerian language during the Middle Bronze Age.  Most Sumerian literature is preserved indirectly, via Assyrian or Babylonian copies. Various and currently outdated theories have been proposed that postulate waves of migration during the Middle Bronze Age in the Ancient Near East.  While the turmoils that separate the Late Bronze Age from the Early Iron Age are well documented (see Bronze Age collapse), theories of migration during the Middle Bronze Age (20th century BCE) have little direct support. Francophone literature is literature written in the French language.  The existence of a plurality of literatures in the French language has been recognised, although the autonomy of these literatures is less defined than the plurality of literatures written in the English language.  Writings in the French language from Belgium, Canada and Switzerland were recognised as belonging to distinct traditions long before writings from colonial territories of France.  Writing in French by Africans was formerly classified as "colonial literature" and discussed as part of colonial studies for its ethnographical interest, rather than studied for its literary merit.  Any texts in French from the colonies and territories that were considered to have merit were subsumed under the classification of French literature.  The nature and importance of Francophone literature in various territories of the former French Empire depends on the concentration of French settlers, the length of time spent in colonial status, and how developed indigenous languages were as literary languages.  It was only following the Second World War that a distinction started to be made in literary studies and anthologies between French literature and other writing in French.  In 1960 Maurice Bémol published "Essai sur l'orientation des littératures de langue française au XXe siècle"; the plural in the title emphasised the study's new approach of examining the level of autonomy of the languages. Portuguese literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the Portuguese language, particularly by citizens of Portugal; it may also refer to literature written by people living in Portugal, Brazil, Angola and Mozambique, as well as other Portuguese-speaking countries.  An early example of Portuguese literature is the tradition of a medieval Galician-Portuguese poetry, originally developed in Galicia and northern Portugal.  The literature of Portugal is distinguished by a wealth and variety of lyric poetry, which has characterized it from the beginning of its language, after the Roman occupation; by its wealth of historical writing documenting Portugal’s rulers, conquests, and expansion; by the then considered Golden Age of the Renaissance period of which it forms part the moral and allegorical Renaissance drama of Gil Vicente, Bernardim Ribeiro, Sá de Miranda and especially the great 16th-century national epic of Luís de Camões, author of national and epic poem "Os Lusíadas" (The Lusiads). Akkadian literature is the ancient literature written in the Akkadian language (Assyrian and Babylonian dialects) written in Mesopotamia (Assyria and Babylonia) during the period spanning the Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age (roughly the 23rd to 6th centuries BC). The Apennine culture is a technology complex in central and southern Italy  from the Italian Middle Bronze Age (15th-14th centuries BC).  In the mid-20th century the Apennine was divided into Proto-, Early, Middle and Late , but now archaeologists prefer to consider as "Apennine" only the ornamental pottery style of the later phase of Middle Bronze Age (BM3).  This phase is preceded by the Grotta Nuova facies (central Italy) and by the Protoapennine B facies (southern Italy) and succeeded by the Subappennine facies of 13th-century ("Bronzo Recente").  Apennine pottery is a burnished ware incised with spirals, meanders and geometrical zones, filled with dots or transverse dashes.  It has been found on Ischia island in association with LHII and LHIII pottery and on Lipari in association with LHIIIA pottery, which associations date it to the Late Bronze Age as it is defined in Greece and the Aegean. The Sumerian King List is an ancient stone tablet originally recorded in the Sumerian language, listing kings of Sumer (ancient southern Iraq) from Sumerian and neighboring dynasties, their supposed reign lengths, and the locations of the kingship.  Kingship was seen as handed down by the gods, and could be transferred from one city to another, reflecting perceived hegemony in the region.  Throughout its Bronze Age existence, the document evolved into a political tool.  Its final and single attested version, dating to the Middle Bronze Age, aimed to legitimize Isin's claims to hegemony when Isin was vying for dominance with Larsa and other neighboring city-states in southern Mesopotamia.
Answer: Sumerian literature