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Civilization · Early Bronze Age · SumerSumerc. 4500–1900 BCESumer was the first urban civilization, in the marshy south of Mesopotamia. Its people were among the first to develop writing, build true cities, and use wheeled vehicles. Sumerian city states such as Uruk and Ur dominated the region until the Akkadians conquered them.