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  1. 10 Oldest Civilizations in the World (Updated 2024)

    • photo source: The Collector Since the empire combined two distinct yet similar civilizations, its people were bilingual, speaking both Sumerian and Akkadian and writing in the Akkadian version of Cuneiform. Th… See more

    Ancient Egyptians

    Photo Source Ancient Egyptian civilizationis traditionally stated to have started around 3,150 BCE when King Menes unified Upper and Lower Egypt and established a capital city at Whit… See more

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    Indus Valley Civilization

    photo source: Wikimedia Commons via Saqib Qayyum The Indus Valley Civilizationor Harappan Civilization was the first urban civilization in South Asia (modern-da… See more

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    Norte Chico

    photo source: Wikimedia Commons The Norte Chico civilization(also called Caral or Caral-supe civilization) is considered to be the oldest known civilization that existed in the Americ… See more

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  1. Current theories and findings identify the Fertile Crescent as the first and oldest cradle of civilization. Examples of sites in this area are the early Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe (9500–8000 BC) and Çatalhöyük (7500–5700 BC).
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    Sumer is the earliest known civilization in ancient Mesopotamia and may have been the first human civilization anywhere in the world. They called themselves the Sag-giga, the “black-headed ones.”
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    Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers') was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to modern-day Iraq and parts of Iran, Syria, Kuwait, and Turkey and known as the Fertile Crescent and the cradle of civilization.
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    Generally accepted as being the oldest civilization ever to have existed, Sumeria is thought to have its origins around 6000 years ago, or 4000BC. In ancient Sumer, the first signs of modern human life emerge.
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    Around 4000 B.C., the earliest phase of the Sumerian culture arose as the oldest civilization in the Mesopotamia region, in what is now mostly Iraq. The Sumerians are named after the ancient city of Sumer, which was a few miles south of the modern city of Kut, in eastern Iraq.
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