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the beginig of the neolithic people was about 8000B.C. and ended in 4000B.C.
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People who farmed could settle in one place. They began to live in villages when animals began to attack their crops.
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The earliest known communities have been found in the middle east. one of the oldest is Jericho.
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another well-known city is Catal Huyuk. Which was home to about 6,000. between 6,700 B.C. and about 5,700 B.C.
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The switch to farming provided greater security and steadier food source. meaning healthier people and a bigger population. With that, there were more workers and more food than they could eat so it let people focus on other things.
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In 3000 B.C. many cities formed in southern Mesopotamia in a reagion known as sumer.
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In about 2340 B.C. Sargon conquered all of Mesopotamia. He set um the worldes first empire.
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in 1792B.C the Babylonian king began conquering cities to the north and south and created the babylonian empire
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About 1000 years after Hammurabi people called the Assyrians who lived in the north had fertile valleys that attracted outside invaders. to defend the land the Assyrian built a large army around 900 B.C. they began taking over the rest of mesopotamia.
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In about 650 B.C. Assyrian kings had to be strong to rule their large empire. their empire stretched from the Persian gulf to the Nile river.
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The Chaldeans wanted to build an empiar. I lad by king Nebuchadnezzar they controlled all of Mesopotamia from 605B.C to 562B.C
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In 539B.C. persians from the mountains to the northeast captured babylon.
