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- The Sumerian people make the first towns and cities. They use irrigation to farm large areas of land.
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- The Sumerians establish powerful city-states, building large temples at the center of their cities.
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- Much of lower Mesopotamia is inhabited by many Sumerian city-states such as Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Kish, Lagash, and Nippur.
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The Sumerians invented the first writing! They use pictures for words and wrote them on clay tablets.
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The Sumerians begin to use the wheels and veechles.
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The Sumerians start to implement mathematics using a number system with the base 60.
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The famous Sumerian King, Gilgamesh, rules over Ur.
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The Sumerian language is replaced by the Akkadian language as the primary spoken language in Mesopotamia.
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Sargon I of the Akkadians conquers most of the Sumerian city states and creates the world's first empire, the Akkadian Empire.
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King Naram-Sin rules for 50 years and expands the empire
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After the Akkadian Empire crumbles, the Sumerians once again gain power. The city of Ur is rebuilt.
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The Elamites capture Ur.
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The Song Of Miriam
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the J source; Ruth; Job; First Isaiah; some minor prophets; first version of the history books of Deuteronomy
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Second Isaiah; Jeremiah; Ezekiel; Psalms
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Third Isaiah; later prophets; Chronicles re-writes story of David to make it sound nicer
