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Sumer

ancient Mesopotamian civilization from 5500 to 1800 BC

9 dated entries naming Sumer, drawn from 7 separate years between 3000 BCE and 1900 BCE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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30th century BC

29th century BC

  • 2900 BCEc. 2900 BC: 2400 BC: Sumerian pictographs evolve into phonograms.source
  • 2900 BCEc. 2900 BC: Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Sumer.source

25th century BC

  • 2500 BCEc. 2500 BC: Cylinder seal from Sumer and its impression are made. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.source
  • 2500 BCEc. 2500 BC: Scribal schools flourish throughout Sumer.source
  • 2450 BCEc. 2450 BC: End of the Early Dynastic IIIa Period and beginning of the Early Dynastic IIIb Period in Sumer.source
  • 2410 BCEc. 2410 BC: By this time, kings in Sumer have ceased to be automatically high priests of the city deity. (Roux 1980) Infiltration and conquest of Mesopotamia by ancient Semitic-speaking peoples begins. (1968 RD Almanac)source

24th century BC

  • 2350 BCEc. 2350 BC: Lugal-Zage-Si of Umma conquers Gu-Edin and unites Sumer as a single kingdom.source

19th century BC

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