Mesopotamia: The First Civilisation, c. 5500–539 BC | Calm Bedtime History
Around 5500 BC, on the flat southern plain between the Tigris and Euphrates, Ubaid villagers farmed irrigated fields and fished the rivers and Gulf. By around 3200 BC, people in Uruk were pressing the first known writing signs into clay tablets to keep records of a growing city.
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