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Sumer formed the first towns and cities. They used irrigation to farm large areas of land.
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Sumer established 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 was inhabited by numerous Sumer city-states for example, Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Kish, Lagash, and Nippur.
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Sumerians invented the first writing. They used pictures for words and wrote them on clay tablets.
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Sumerians begin to use put wheels on vehicles
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Sumerians start to implement mathematics using a number system with the base 60.
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Famous Sumerian King Gilgamesh rules the city-state of Ur.
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Sumerian language is replaced by Akkadian language as the primary spoken language in Mesopotamia
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Sargon One of the Akkadians conquers most of the Sumerian city-states and creates the world's first empire (Akkadian Empire)
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King Naram-Sin of the Akkadians expands the empire to its largest. Rules for 50 years.
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Akkadian Empire crumbles, Sumerians gain power again. City of Ur rebuilt.
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Elamites capture Ur
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Such as 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; Ezekial; Deuteronomy is expanded; Psalms
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The Rest of the Torah; Third Isaiah; later prophets; Chronicles re-writes the story of David to make it sound nicer
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