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3213 BCE to 3070 BCE

A cuneiform script is in use in Sumer by 3200 BCE, by which time writing has spread from Mesopotamia to the Egyptians in the west and to the Elamites of southwestern Iran.

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Mesopotamia View → Egyptians View → Egypt (Ancient), Predynastic View → Sumer View → Proto-Elamite period View → Egypt (Ancient), Protodynastic or Semainian (Naqada III) View → Egypt (Ancient), Early Dynastic View →

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Subboreal Period during the Neolithic Subpluvial View → Early Bronze Age I (Near and Middle East) View → Piora Oscillation ending the Neolithic Subpluvial View → Subboreal Period View →

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The Near and Middle East (3213 BCE to 3070 BCE)

The Near and Middle East

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Middle East (3213 BCE to 3070 BCE)

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Near East (3213 BCE to 3070 BCE)

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