Mesopotamia

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Mesopotamia includes the territory under control of the modern states of: Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey.
    www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU_REGINDX_MESO.HTML

8000BC    About this time the inhabitants of Mesopotamia (centered about modern Iraq) began us-ing distinctively shaped clay tokens- spheres, disks, cones, cylinders, triangles, among others- to keep track of foodstuffs, livestock, and land.
    (I&I, Penzias, p.42)(V.D.-H.K.p.10)

6,200BCE    The development of irrigation in Mesopotamia at this time seems to coincide with a cool dry period.
    (Econ, 12/20/03, p.114)

3,450        The first cities appeared along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates just north of what is now the Persian Gulf. The cities made up the Uruk culture named after the principal city of Uruk, which corresponds to the Biblical Erech. The culture invented writing, the lunar calendar, used metal and built monumental architecture. The cities remained independent for almost a thousand years.
    (eawc, p.1)

c2750BC    Queen Paubi lived in the city of Ur in Mesopotamia.
    (WSJ, 3/15/00, p.A24)

2700BC    The Sumerian King, Gilgamesh, ruled the city of Uruk which had grown to a population of over 50,000. Gilgamesh was the subject of many epics, including the Sumerian “Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the Nether World” and the Babylonian “Epic of Gilgamesh.”
    (eawc, p.1)

2130BC    By this time Sumer regained its independence from Akkadian rule but did not revert to independent city-states. Sumer was ruled from Ur.
    (eawc, p.2)

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