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c. 3500 BCEFirst written evidence of religion in the world recorded on Sumerian tablets.
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c. 3500 BCECuneiform script developed by Sumerians.
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c. 3200 BCECuneiform script further developed and advanced in the city of Uruk.
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3000 BCECuneiform script refined.
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2900 BCE - 2334 BCECuneiform script develops fully during the Early Dynastic Period of Mesopotamia.
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2285 BCE - 2250 BCELife of Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon of Akkad, and world's first author known by name.
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c. 2150 BCE - c. 1400 BCEThe tales of Gilgamesh written which inform The Epic of Gilgamesh
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c. 1900 BCE - c. 1600 BCEComposition of The Descent of Inanna.
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c. 1640 BCE - c. 1700 BCEWritten form of the Atrahasis Myth of the Great Flood.
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c. 647 BCE - c. 629 BCEExtensive collection of clay tablets acquired known as Ashurbanipal's Library at Nineveh.
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c. 100 BCECuneiform abandoned for alphabetic script.
