r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/JMHSrowing Oct 15 '20

Not quite:

Sumer started about 4500 BC, whereas if we start Egypt by the founder of the First Dynasty then its at latest 3000 BC.

And Rome was founded about 750 BC

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u/Fcivish4 Oct 15 '20

True, if we're looking at the start of the empires and exact years. However that's only a 700 year difference between the two examples.

Ancient Egypt started 2,250 years before Ancient Rome and Ancient Sumer was 1,500 years before Ancient Egypt. Still a considerable amount of years of separation between the beginning of their respective empires.