Members of the Middle Eastern and Egyptian empires moved forward human development and came together to form the first great cities. Both had similar development and refinements in agriculture and technology as well as government/law cuneiform writing/hieroglyphics, math/science, artistry and architecture, religion and hierarchical society.
There were several of them. "Ancient" usually concerns the Civilizations that existed anytime between about 4,000 BC until the first century AD. Most well-known are the Sumerian, Mesopotamian and Persian civilizations and the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilizations. In the Americas, the Inca and Maya civilizations, although younger, sometimes also are counted as 'ancient' civilizations.
One of the major steps was them being in a rich soil strip. Another was them having good natural resources. Another was them inventing there own language.
About 1400 years. First civilizations arose in Nubia: 3200 B.C. Egypt expanded its borders into Nubia: about 1800 B.C.
Sumerians
No civilization can exist without some form of measurement nor record keeping. It therefore follows that the first to have a written language would be the first to record measurement. The contenders for this are : -- The Chinese (records begin around 1600 BC, but culture much older) -- The Sumerians or Akkadians (Uruk records dated to before 2900 BC) -- The Egyptians (records exist from 3200 BC)
Agriculture--
Development of irrigation
Development of irrigation
There were several of them. "Ancient" usually concerns the Civilizations that existed anytime between about 4,000 BC until the first century AD. Most well-known are the Sumerian, Mesopotamian and Persian civilizations and the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilizations. In the Americas, the Inca and Maya civilizations, although younger, sometimes also are counted as 'ancient' civilizations.
They built one of the first civilizations.
Money (currency) was developed in the mesopotamian times, the first civilizations. in James allens arse
Genesis 1:16 Genesis is ca:1490BC. The Egyptian city Heliopolis (City of the Sun) dates to ca:3100BC. I suspect that there are older writings from Mesopotamian civilizations which might reference the sun.
One of the major steps was them being in a rich soil strip. Another was them having good natural resources. Another was them inventing there own language.
The first four civilizations are Indus (India), Yellow (china), nile (Egypt), and Mesopotamians
Yes, the Mesopotamians were the creators of the first form of writing known as cuneiform, around 3500 BCE. Cuneiform was a system of writing using wedge-shaped characters impressed on clay tablets.
The Leo Constellation was named by the Egyptian people. It is one of the first constellations that was discovered and first discovered by the Mesopotamian people.
Many historians believe that the first Egyptian empire was founded by Narmer in 3100 BC BCE. He unified the two Egyptian kingdoms. The upper & lower Egyptian civilizations.