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2036 BCE

This year falls in the Early Bronze Age (c. 3200–2000 BCE). Writing appears in Mesopotamia and Egypt around 3200 BCE, and the written record begins. The first cities, kings and states grow up along the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Nile and the Indus.

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Civilization · Iron Age · AssyriaAssyriac. 2025–609 BCEAssyria was the great military power of the ancient Near East, centered on the upper Tigris. Its Neo Assyrian Empire of the ninth to seventh centuries BCE ruled from Egypt to Iran. It fell to a coalition of Babylonians and Medes in 609 BCE.