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| | Legion XXIV - Time Line of Etruscan Rome |
 | | c.3000 BC Ur and Uruk, the first recognized city-states on Earth, are established in the Sumer region of Southern Mesopotamia (Iraq) in the south end of the Fertile Crescent, where records for the first Kings, the wheel and the plow are found. |
 | | c.1900 BC Postulated time for the biblical destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the wicked "cities of the plain" in the Dead Sea region, also of Admah, Zeboiim and Zoar, of which Zoar was spared. |
 | | 718 BC The Eternal Flame of Rome is ignited, tended by the Vestal Virgins. |
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