The World's First City (TRIH ep 519)
3,500 BCE · Resource
By around 3000 BC the vast and spectacular city of Uruk - replete with towering walls, glistening temples and complex irrigation systems - lay sprawled across the face of Southern Mesopotamia. Not only is Uruk the oldest city in the world, but it is arguably one of the most consequential, having facilitated one of the great turning points of human civilisation.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 3500 BCE
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- Invention of writing (Sumer) (3200 BCE)
- First Dynasty of Egypt founded (3100 BCE)
- Great Pyramid of Giza (2560 BCE)
- The Creation (4004 BCE)
- Sumerian civilisation (4500 BCE)
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution ends (4000 BCE)
- Old Kingdom of Egypt (2686 BCE)
- Stonehenge (3000 BCE)
- Invention of the wheel (3500 BCE)