Visual Timeline: Uruk

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5400 BCE: The City of Eridu is founded.
 
5000 BCE: Sumer inhabited by Ubaid people.
 
4500 BCE: The City of Uruk founded.
 
4100 BCE - 2900 BCE: Uruk Period in Mesopotamia. First cities.
 
4100 BCE - 2900 BCE: Uruk Period in Sumer.
 
 
4000 BCE: Creation at Uruk of first mass-produced bowls.
 
 
3600 BCE: Invention of writing in Sumer at Uruk.
 
3200 BCE: First instance of written language in Sumerian.
 
2900 BCE - 2334 BCE: The Early Dynastic Period in Sumer.
 
 
2600 BCE: Uruk ruled by Gilgamesh for 126 years according to the Sumerian King List.
 
 
2100 BCE: Ziggurats in use in Sumerian cities of Eridu, Uruk, Ur, Nippur and elsewhere
 
 
2100 BCE: The Reign of Utu-Hegal at Uruk in Sumer and creation of Sumerian King List.
 
2055 BCE - 2047 BCE: Utu Hegal's reign over Sumerian and Akkadian cities.
 
 
2047 BCE - 1750 BCE: The Ur III Period in Sumer. Great Wall of Uruk still standing.
 
 
1787 BCE: Hammurabi of Babylon conquers Uruk and Isin.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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