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Rise of cities in Mesopotamia

Growth of cities in southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq); by about 3200 BCE Uruk was the largest settlement in the region.

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Dates
c. 3500 BCE – c. 3000 BCE
Also known as
Mesopotamian urbanization, First cities of Mesopotamia

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  • Invention of writing Scholarship & press 12

    The essay adds that proto-cuneiform writing may also have existed in Syria and Turkey by the mid-4th millennium BCE.

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  1. c. 3500 BCE – c. 3000 BCE Rise of cities in Mesopotamia
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  1. The Origins of Writing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History), Oct 2004. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    The site was dominated by large temple estates whose need for accounting and disbursing of revenues led to the recording of economic data on clay tablets.
  2. How to write cuneiform, British Museum, 21 Jan 2021. Scholarship & press Archived copy
    First developed by scribes as a bookkeeping tool to keep track of bread and beer rations in ancient cities like Uruk (in the south east of modern-day Iraq)
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