· c. 5,500 BCE – 1,900 BCE

Sumer

Sumer ( SOO-mər) is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the 5th and 4th millennium BC. Like nearby Elam, it is one of the cradles of civilization, along with Egypt, the Indus Valley, the Erligang culture of the Yellow River valley, Caral-Supe, and Mesoamerica.

When: c. 5,500 BCE – 1,900 BCE
Where: Asia
Era

Topics

Mesopotamiac. 3,500 BCE – 539 BCE

Before and after

Neolithic Revolutionc. 9,000 BCE – 3,000 BCE Writing begins in Sumerc. 3,200 BCE Show on timeline

Text from the Wikipedia article Sumer, CC BY-SA 4.0