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jan 1, 5000 BC - Uruk Settled

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A city in the ancient Near East situated ancient channel of the Euphrates. Uruk played a leading role in the early urbanization of Sumer in the mid-4th millennium BC. By the final phase of the Uruk period around 3100 BC, the city may have had 40,000 residents, with 80,000–90,000 people living in its environs, making it the largest urban area in the world at the time.

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jan 1, 5000 BC
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~ 7030 years ago