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| | Sumer: 3500-1900 BC |
 | | After the fall of the last dynasty around 1900 BC, Sumerian scribes wrote chronicles of their long past. |
 | | Sumer is the birthplace of the first known civilization (settled down city dwelling where people possess stable agriculture, domesticated animals, a hierarchical system of social classes with priest-kings, slaves, scribes, advisers, doctors, merchants, fishermen, smiths and masons), which flourished between 3500BC and 1900BC. |
 | | The true Sumerian period begins sometime prior to 3500 BC, possibly as a primitive people stemming from hunters and gatherers who settled in the fertile-crescent. |
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