Chapter 1

First Peoples; First Farmers Most of History in a Single Chapter to 3500 B.C.E.

Sumer

is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.

Ancient Mesopotamia 101 | National Geographic

Egypt

was a civilization of ancient North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated in the place that is now the country Egypt.

Ancient Egypt 101 | National Geographic

Nubia

is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the first cataract of the Nile and the confluence of the blue and white Niles or, more strictly, Al Dabbah.

A History Of The Nubian People

Norte Chico

civilization was a complex pre-Columbian-era society that included as many as thirty major population centers in what is now the Norte Chico region of north-central coastal Peru.