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About how long ago did Neolithic farmers build the first civilizations in the Fertile Crescent, also called Mesopotamia?

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One of the oldest known Mesopotamian cities, Nineveh (near Mosul in modern Iraq), may have been settled as early as 6,000 B.C.
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