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Uruk

Sumer's first true city; setting of Gilgamesh, birthplace of proto-cuneiform writing.

Dated events and their evidence

• 4,000 BCE mainstream
  emergence as major city (Uruk period) source
• 3,200 BCE mainstream
  earliest proto-cuneiform writing source

Where

31.3224° N, 45.6361° E

Sources

• https://www.worldhistory.org/uruk/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruk

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