Rise of Sumerian City-States (Ur, Lagash, Kish)
3000 BCE
Monumental urban centers, royal dynasties, and expansion of bronze metallurgy across Sumer.
Sources and References
Cimetière Royal d'Ur & Standard d'Ur (British Museum, BM 121201)
Consulter l'archive officielle ↗Samuel Noah Kramer, L'Histoire commence à Sumer (Arthaud)
Semantic cluster
Mesopotamia clusterSumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria: writing, law codes, Fertile Crescent empires.
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3200 BCE
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2500 BCE
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2334 BCE
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2112 BCE
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Epic of Gilgamesh and the Flood
2100 BCE
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3000 BCE
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Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt by Narmer
3100 BCE
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Djoser's Step Pyramid at Saqqara (Imhotep)
2670 BCE