Ch. 1-4 AP World History Notes
Darlene Kim Mr. Jones World History AP Part 1 ? The Emergence of Human Communities to 500 B.C.E. Chapter 1 ? From the Origins of Agriculture to the First River- Valley Civilizations 8000-1500 B.C.E. The world?s first urban civilization had begun with people living in Sumer, about five thousand years ago in Mesopotamia. Early societies that exhibited civilization traits were living nearby floodplains of great rivers. (i.e. Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq)