what is the first known civilization?

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like to know more about the sumairian culture

Answer 1

THE MESOPOTAMIAN

Mesopotamia was located in the Middle East. The Sumerians, 4000 - 3000 BC, built the first cities of the world on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. It is the present location of Iraq. The cities were enclosed by large walls and had temples on top of ziggurats which were huge stepped pyramids that had flat tops. The people used irrigation to water their crops. The Sumerians were the first to develop a form of writing called pictographs on clay tablets. This finally changed to script called cuneiform. The Sumerians had homes made of reeds and were farmers. They changed to homes made with mud bricks and straw which were dried in the sun. The most important buildings were temples. They believed that gods who ruled the world lived on mountains. They believed mankind served the gods and goddesses so they brought them food, clothes and riches. The priests took care of the wealth so they became very powerful. The rulers governed the cities like kings and headed the armies. The rulers were buried in royal tombs with all of their possessions.

Answer 2

It amazes me that people don't know this. The Mayans not only were NOT the first civilization, they were not even the oldest MEXICAN civilization. That would be the Olmecs. The Sumerians are the first civilization to have a writing system, among other accomplishments, but even then, 'civilization' is a loaded term, because at what point is one called civilized? When you start building towns? That happened before the Sumerians. When you start building large buildings and monuments? Prehistoric civilizations did that for a few thousand years before them. Most people consider the Sumerians the first civilization because it is the beginning of RECORDED history and also because they were the first to become expansionist, fighting battles for territory and tribute and in doing so they created the first 'empire' of city-states. Everything before that is technically 'pre-historic'.

Answer 3

The oldest known civilization still in existence is the Aborigine society in Australia.

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Sumerians made the first citistate, they buikt temples and houses usis mud to make bricks, their cities were surrounded by high and thick walls to protect them from enemies, they invented the wheel, did metal work, using cooper and tin, great craftmaker, traders, works of literature learn more in wh.glencoe.com world history,lppk for the complete chapter early civilization, after Sumerian, Argon leader of the Akkadians, built the first Empire, is very interesting.

Answer 5

The Neolithic Resolution

Answer 6

Sumer 3500–2334 BCE:-

The Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer officially is believed to have begun around 4000-3500 BCE, and ended at 2334 BCE with the rise of Akkad. It was the world's first civilization.
The oldest granary yet found dates back to 9500 BCE and is located in the Jordan Valley. The earliest known settlement in Jericho (9th millennium BCE) was a PPNA culture that eventually gave way to more developed settlements later, which included in one early settlement (8th millennium BCE) mud-brick houses surrounded by a stone wall, having a stone tower built into the wall. In this time there is evidence of domesticated emmer wheat, barley and pulses and hunting of wild animals. However, there are no indications of attempts to form communities (early civilizations) with surrounding peoples. Nevertheless, by the 6th millennium BCE we find what appears to be an ancient shrine and cult, which would likely indicate intercommunal religious practices in this era. Findings include a collective burial (with not all the skeletons completely articulated, jaws removed, faces covered with plaster, cowries used for eyes). Other finds from this era include stone and bone tools, clay figurines and shell and malachite beads. Around 1500 to 1200 BCE Jericho and other cities of Canaan had become vassals of the Egyptian empire.

Several miles southwest of Ur, Eridu was the southernmost of a conglomeration of early temple-cities, in Sumer, southern Mesopotamia, with the earliest of these settlements carbon dating to around 5000 BCE. By the 4th millennium BCE, in Nippur we find, in connection with a sort of ziggurat and shrine, a conduit built of bricks, in the form of an arch. Sumerian inscriptions written on clay also appear in Nippur. By 4000 BCE an ancient city of Susa, in Mesopotamia, seems to emerge from earlier villages. Sumerian cuneiform script dates to no later than about 3500 BCE. Sumer, which was Mesopotamia's first civilization in what is now Iraq, is recognized as the world's earliest civilization. Other villages begin to spring up around this time in the Ancient Near East (Middle East) as well.

Answer 7

The Olmecs
1200 BCE (Before Common Era) to
600 CE (Common Era)

Answer 8

believed to be in Mesopotamia the cradle of civilization

(as in modern day Iraq -- ironic isn't it?)

Answer 9

MAYAN DATES GO TO 3 MILLION YEARS BACK!!!