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THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world’s first major civilizations.

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occupied southern Mesopotamia and Chaldea. After its development, cuneiform was used for more than 3,000 years, which has inspired multiple early writing systems within the Mesopotamian bounds. 2.

The Sumerians developed cuneiform, one of the earliest writing systems, around 3200 BC. This involved inscribing wedge-shaped symbols on clay tablets, allowing for record-keeping, literature ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.