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?

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. <SEP> 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. <SEP> 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, sciences, mathematics, laws and philosophies; hence its common epithet, the Cradle of Civilization.  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. <SEP> 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.