8. The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities (Fall of Civilizations)
4,500 BCE–1,750 BCE · Resource
The channel's most-watched episode; 40M views on the rise and fall of the first cities. From Fall of Civilizations.
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Around 4500 BCE
- Sumerian civilisation (4500 BCE)
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution ends (4000 BCE)
- Invention of the wheel (3500 BCE)
- Uruk period in Mesopotamia (4000 BCE)
- Domestication of the horse (3500 BCE)
- Spread of agriculture to Europe (5000 BCE)
- Sumerian city-states emerge (4000 BCE)
- Naqada culture (4000 BCE)
- Carnac stones erected (4500 BCE)
- Earliest evidence of copper smelting (5000 BCE)