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The Sumer establish powerful city-states building large ziggurats at the center of their cities as temples to their gods.
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Much of lower Mesopotamia is inhabited by numerous Sumer city-states such as Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Kish, Lagash, and Nippur.
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The Sumerians invent the first writing. They use pictures for words and inscribe them on clay tablets.
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The Sumerians begin to use the wheel on vehicles.
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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 the city-state of 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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After the Akkadian Empire crumbles, the Sumerians once again gain power. The city of Ur is rebuilt.
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The Shang Dynasty is the earliest ruling dynasty of China to be established in recorded history, though other dynasties predated it.
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you could vote, you had a choice, you had a say
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this war was between Athens and the Peloponnesian league lead by the Spartans.
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The Qin dynasty was the first dynasty of Imperial China. Named for its heartland in Qin state, the dynasty was founded by Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor of Qin.
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The Han dynasty was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms period.
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was the longest-lasting of ancient China's dynasties. It followed the Shang Dynasty and it finished when the army of the state of Qin captured the city of Chengzhou in 256 BCE.
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