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In what region did the first known states develop

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Mesopotamia has two regions; the Sumer (south) and the Akkad (north). Sumer, the south region is the first known complex civilization, developing the first city-states in the 4th millennium BCE. It was in these cities that the cuneiform script appeared as the earliest known form of writing, in which invented by Sumerians.

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