World History
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For tens of thousnds of years mankind existed as a simple hunter-gatherer society. A villages entire food source would consist of whatever the hunter-gatherers would be able to attain, making villages very small, and prone to hunger.
Somehow mankind slowly began to develop, and learn, and depend more on agriculture and domestication. As food become more stable and abundant, villages were allowed to grow to sizes many times greater than before. Over thousands more years, mankind began to develop further intellectually, militarily, and spiritually. Over time villages overpowered other villages, then spread their control over a vast area...
Sumer was the worlds first known civilization, dominating the fertile crescent region of Mesopotamia around 3300 BCE. Sumer thrived off of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Many other civilizations around this time would also have major river systems (Egypt: the Nile, India: The Ganges, China: Huang Ye, etc...} The most powerful civilizations in this time period had to have access to a large water supply to sustain Agricultural society.
Sumer lead the way for many important inventions in ancient history, including the Wheel, written language, Cities (Ur, founded around 2500 BCE, was the worlds first city). Around the same time Egypt had completed the Pyramids at Giza... (this article is a work in progress)
