Sumer & Akkad: Notable People, Organizations, and Civilizations | HISTORICAL SET #1 (Ancient World: Sumer to Rome)

6500 BCE - 5500 BCE - Samarra (Fact 0)

Ancient Mesopotamian culture and farming community characterized by inhabiting a part of Mesopotamia directly South of Halaf and the smallest area of land in the region

6500 BCE - 5500 BCE - Samarra (Fact 1)

Ancient Mesopotamian culture and farming community characterized by its distinctive geometrically-stylized pottery depicting natural phenomena

6500 BCE - 5500 BCE - Samarra (Fact 2)

Ancient Mesopotamian culture and farming community characterized by its members having dug irrigation canals to control nearby rivers and streams

6500 BCE - 5000 BCE - Halaf (Fact 0)

Ancient Mesopotamian culture and farming community characterized by inhabiting a part of Mesopotamia directly North of Halaf and the largest area of land in the region

6500 BCE - 5000 BCE - Halaf (Fact 1)

Ancient Mesopotamian culture and farming community characterized by its having relatively rare materials in their possession such as Obsidian, Bitumen, and seashells; which were the products of trade for their sophisticated pottery

6500 BCE - 5000 BCE - Halaf (Fact 2)

Ancient Mesopotamian culture and farming community characterized by its inventing of the first Stamp Seals

5500 BCE - 4000 BCE - Ubaid (Fact 0)

Ancient Mesopotamian culture and farming community characterized by inhabiting a part of Mesopotamia directly South of Samarra near the Persian Gulf

5500 BCE - 4000 BCE - Ubaid (Fact 1)

Ancient Mesopotamian culture and farming community characterized by being the direct precursor to Sumer and its cities made up of migrants who came from the North looking for new soil to cultivate for their crops

5500 BCE - 4000 BCE - Ubaid (Fact 2)

Ancient Mesopotamian culture and farming community characterized by their developing of villages into cities of over 5,000 people that consisted of 1-story single-family households, large buildings that served to store grain among other crops, and a building in the center on a hilltop that is believed to have been the first temples in the region

5500 BCE - 4000 BCE - Ubaid (Fact 3)

Ancient Mesopotamian culture and farming community characterized by their growing of lentils and raising of livestock including cattle, goats, and sheep

5500 BCE - 4000 BCE - Ubaid (Fact 4)

Ancient Mesopotamian culture and farming community characterized by their distinctive pottery and figurines which they used for trade, pottery of which was the most widely bought and used throughout the entire region of Mesopotamia at the time

4000 BCE - 2000 BCE - Sumerians (Fact 1)

Civilization lived in the land of Sumer (Southern Iraq) whose name in their language means "black-headed people"

4000 BCE - 2000 BCE - Sumerians (Fact 2)

Civilization originally from another area unknown but whom mixed in with the preexisting Ubaid settlements in the area

4000 BCE - 2000 BCE - Sumerians (Fact 3)

Civilization credited with the invention of the first written languages and writing in general such as Proto-Cuneiform and Cuneiform and the processes and devices used to write them down such as the process of writing in wet clay and waiting for it to dry and harden for the written down information to stay in place and the development of Cylinder Seals

4000 BCE - 2000 BCE - Sumerians (Fact 4)

Civilization which traded pottery with and which both architecturally influenced and was architecturally influenced by Northern Mesopotamia (Syria, Iran, Turkey) at the time and honed in various materials along established trade routes between itself and the northern regions and via trade colonies including Copper and Tin (Bronze), Wood and Stone (for buildings), Gold and Silver (for trade), Obsidian (for tools), and Lead

2494 BCE - 2465 BCE - Ur-Nanshe (Fact 1)

First King of Lagash, Founder of the First Dynasty of Lagash; and thus Military leader of Lagash