ANCIENT TIMES Mesopotamian Empire (apr 30, 3500 BC – apr 30, 3100 BC)
Description:
The First Civilization. A civilization is a culture capable of sustaining a substantial number of specialists to cope with the economic, social, political, and religious needs of a populous society. Other characteristics usually present in a civilization include a system of writing to keep records, monumental architecture in place of simple buildings, and an art that is no longer merely decorative, like that on Neolithic pottery, but representative of people and their activities. All these characteristics of civilization first appeared in Mesopotamia (Guisepi R.).Added to timeline:
Date:
apr 30, 3500 BC
apr 30, 3100 BC
~ 400 years