Age of the Earth - Field School

Transition from hunter-gatherer society to agriculture. The first cities emerge in Mesopotamia. First irrigation systems ca. 5,000 BC. 5,000 - 3,000 BC Rise of the Sumerian Civilization and development of cuneiform writing ca. 3,400 BC. Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt by Menes, the founder of the first Egyptian Dynasty ca. 3,100 BC. ................
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