Sumerian Civilization, c. 4300 - 2335 BCE
"A map illustrating the emergence of the Sumerian civilization around 6000 BCE from a collection of city-states on the floodplains of southern Mesopotamia, along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the area that was to later become the Akkadian Empire and then Babylonia."
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Sumerian Civilization, c. 4300 - 2335 BCE