[DOC] [TLE] World History Timeline Ancient Mesopotamian civilization timeline ... [PAR] Ancient Mesopotamian civilization - a complete guide to the oldest and ... Here, 
the earliest cities in world history appeared, about 3500 BC. ... It was the 
Sumerian-speakers who lived near the great rivers, and it was they who built the 
first cities. .... the idea grew that, as representatives of the gods on Earth (indeed, 
in some... [DOC] [TLE] The Rise Of Civilization In The Middle East And Africa [PAR] we today call the Middle East, along the great rivers that led to the Persian. Gulf. 
... B.C. They settled in an area of about 700 square miles where they mixed with 
... introduced around 3500 B.C. The Sumerian invention of writing was probably 
..... the 9th century B.C. some religious ideas and the history of the Jews began to
. [DOC] [TLE] Mesopotamia - Ancient History Encyclopedia [PAR] Sep 2, 2009 ... Even so, Mesopotamia is known as the cradle of civilization ... today,; and the 
invention of writing (although writing is also known to have ... two rivers allowed 
an ancient hunter-gatherer people to settle in the .... 3500 BCE) and writing (c. ... 
Great in 331 BCE brought Hellenization of the culture and religion,... [DOC] [TLE] Top 11 inventions and discoveries of Mesopotamia ... [PAR] 11 Mesopotamia inventions and discoveries that made human civilization 
possible. ... The earliest form of writing was invented in Mesopotamia. The first 
means of transportation, like the chariot and the sailboat, were invented in 
Mesopotamia. Most of ... The first wheel was believed to exist around 3,500 BC in 
Mesopotamia. [DOC] [TLE] (12) Early civilizations and the development of writing systems in the ... [PAR] Later on some more people came and settled in Sumer. ... of pictographic writing 
that used word pictures like bird, fish, ox or grain etc., around 4000 - 3500 BC. In 
3000 BC, it developed into a cursive form of cuneiform style of writing ... Map of 
Mesopotamia ... Egyptians borrowed the idea of pictorial writing from Sumerians. [DOC] [TLE] Early River Valley Civilizations, 3500 BC450 BC - Community Unit ... [PAR] Geography What rivers helped sustain the four river valley civilizations? Projects 
such as ... land that provided some of the best farming in Southwest Asia. ... 
swampy lands in southern Mesopotamia before 4500 B.C. Around 3300 B.C., the 
... These projects also created a need for laws to settle disputes over how land. [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 2: Rivers, Cities and First States, 40002000 BCE | Worlds ... [PAR] Around 3500 BCE, a series of cultural changes, demographic leaps, and ... In 
some areas, trade developed between coastal and inland peoples. ... Temples 
functioned like large households, with agricultural, workshop, and ... Meanwhile, 
in southern Mesopotamia, Sargon the Great unified the independent cities, 
forging a... [DOC] [TLE] The Cuneiform Writing System in Ancient Mesopotamia: Emergence ... [PAR] The Best of the Humanities on the Web ... The Cuneiform writing system 
developed here was the first form of communication beyond the ... That writing 
system, invented by the Sumerians, emerged in Mesopotamia around 3500 BCE. 
... of writing and civilization in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys in ancient 
Mesopotamia. [DOC] [TLE] Sumer - Wikipedia [PAR] Sumer was the first urban civilization in the historical region of southern 
Mesopotamia, ... Some scholars contest the idea of a Euphrates language or one 
substrate language. ... Sumerian civilization took form in the Uruk period (4th 
millennium BC), ... the Semitic-speaking kings of the Akkadian Empire around 
2270 BC (short... [DOC] [TLE] World History/Ancient Civilizations - Wikibooks, open books for an ... [PAR] 5 Ancient Andes; 6 Valdiva 3500 BCE-1800BCE; 7 Ancient Egypt ... 12.4 What 
did their writing look like? ... Over time, nomadic groups of foragers and hunters 
began to settle down. ... Drawbacks at the onset of civilization were that they were 
unusually .... Agriculture first started in the Middle East around 10,000-9500 BC. [DOC] [TLE] History of Ancient Sumer [PAR] All these characteristics of civilization first appeared in Mesopotamia. ... Between

Question: They settled Mesopotamia around 3500 B.C. & brought in some good ideas, like civilization & writing
Answer: the Sumerians