** Early Dynastic Period of Egypt: 31st to 27th centuries BC

The Sumerian civilization spanned over 3000 years and began with the first settlement of Eridu in the Ubaid period ( mid-6th millennium BC ) through the Uruk period ( 4th millennium BC ) and the Early Dynastic periods ( 3rd millennium BC ) until the rise of Assyria and Babylonia in the late 3rd and early 2nd millennium BC respectively.

The Sumerian historical record remains obscure until the Early Dynastic period, when a now deciphered syllabary writing system was developed, which has allowed archaeologists to read contemporary records and inscriptions.

* Early Dynastic period ( Early Bronze Age II-IV )

** Early Dynastic I period: 2900 – 2800 BC

** Early Dynastic II period: 2800 – 2600 BC ( Gilgamesh )

** Early Dynastic IIIa period: 2600 – 2500 BC

** Early Dynastic IIIb period: c. 2500 – 2334 BC

** Early Dynastic period (~ 2900 – 2350 BC )

Fragment of the Stele of the Vultures showing marching warriors, Early Dynastic III period, 2600 – 2350 BC

An Early Dynastic II king ( Ensi ) of Uruk in Sumer, Gilgamesh ( c. 2, 600 BCE ), was commended for military exploits against Humbaba guardian of the Cedar Mountain, and was later celebrated in many later poems and songs in which he was claimed to be two-thirds god and only one-third human.

The later Stele of the Vultures at the end of the Early Dynastic III period ( 2600 – 2350 BC ), commemorating the victory of Eannatum of Lagash over the neighbouring rival city of Umma is the oldest monument in the world that celebrates a massacre.

The most notable architectural remains from early Mesopotamia are the temple complexes at Uruk from the 4th millennium BC, temples and palaces from the Early Dynastic period sites in the Diyala River valley such as Khafajah and Tell Asmar, the Third Dynasty of Ur remains at Nippur ( Sanctuary of Enlil ) and Ur ( Sanctuary of Nanna ), Middle Bronze Age remains at Syrian-Turkish sites of Ebla, Mari, Alalakh, Aleppo and Kultepe, Late Bronze Age palaces at Bogazkoy ( Hattusha ), Ugarit, Ashur and Nuzi, Iron Age palaces and temples at Assyrian ( Kalhu / Nimrud, Khorsabad, Nineveh ), Babylonian ( Babylon ), Urartian ( Tushpa / Van Kalesi, Cavustepe, Ayanis, Armavir, Erebuni, Bastam ) and Neo-Hittite sites ( Karkamis, Tell Halaf, Karatepe ).

The earliest ziggurats began near the end of the Early Dynastic Period.

" Popular Revolt, Dynastic Politics, and Aristocratic Factionalism in the Early Middle Ages: The Saxon Stellinga Reconsidered.

These tombs, which date to the Early Dynastic IIIa period ( approximately in the 25th or 24th century BC ), contained immense amounts of luxury items made out of precious metals, and semi-precious stones all of which would have had to been imported from long distances ( Iran, Afghanistan, India, Asia Minor, the Persian Gulf ).

Early Dynastic ( Archaic ) period started ( according to French Egyptologist Nicolas Grimal.

* Early Dynastic Period pharaohs, Ro, Serket, Narmer

The earliest mentioning of Dilmun is Mesopotamian sources was in the Early Dynastic III Period, when Ur-Nanshe ( circa 2520 BC ) proclaimed that ;

* c. 2900 BCE – 2334 BCE: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.

* c. 2450 BCE: End of the Early Dynastic IIIa Period and beginning of the Early Dynastic IIIb Period in Sumer.

`` Early this morning '', replied the other, `` I set out from India ''.

But now with real anger at last, something proud and indignant, Early Spring stood like a she wolf before her den and cried, `` I will not shriek at you!!

Early Pueblo I Era sites may have housed up to 600 individuals in a few separate but closely spaced settlement clusters.

Translations into the vernacular were done by famous notables, including King Alfred ( Old English ), Jean de Meun ( Old French ), Geoffrey Chaucer ( Middle English ), Queen Elizabeth I ( Early Modern English ), and Notker Labeo ( Old High German ).

Early computer programs performed I / O by waiting in a loop for the peripheral to become ready.

Early songs with disco elements include " You Keep Me Hangin ' On " ( The Supremes, 1966 ), " Only the Strong Survive " ( Jerry Butler, 1968 ), " Message to Love " ( Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, 1970 ), " Soul Makossa " ( Manu Dibango, 1972 ), Eddie Kendricks ' Keep on Truckin ' ( 1973 ) and " The Love I Lost " by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ( 1973 ).

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

* Uruk period: 4100 – 2900 BC ( Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age I )

INTELSAT I Early Bird

On April 6, 1965, Intelsat ’ s first satellite, the Intelsat I ( nicknamed Early Bird ), was placed in geostationary orbit above the Atlantic Ocean by a Delta D rocket.

Early on, as a youngster it was difficult, but I ’ m not ashamed to talk about it because many people have misconceptions about hearing loss ; like who has hearing loss and what it ’ s like not to hear, so I do talk about it.

Early in World War I, Japan took the opportunity to declare war on Germany and invaded the Northern Marianas, hoping to annex them.

Early every morning of his adult life, he contributed something to the Cahiers, prompting him to write: " Having dedicated those hours to the life of the mind, I thereby earn the right to be stupid for the rest of the day.

* " Reincarnation as Taught by Early Christians ", by I. M. Oderberg, from Sunrise magazine, May 1973, Copyright © 1973 by Theosophical University Press.

A few biblical texts, such as the Ark Narrative and stories reflecting the importance of Gath, seem to portray Late Iron I and Early Iron II memories.

Early in 1197, at the request of Sancho I, King of Portugal, Pope Celestine III declared a Crusade against Alfonso IX, and released his subjects from their responsibilities to the king, declaring " the men of his realm shall be absolved from their fidelity and his dominion by authority of the apostolic see.

Once seriously questioned, the intermediates did not wait for the next Pan African Congress two years hence, but were officially rejected in 1965 ( again on an advisory basis ) by Burg Wartenstein Conference # 29, Systematic Investigation of the African Later Tertiary and Quarternary, a prestigious conference in anthropology held by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, at Burg Wartenstein Castle, which it then owned in Austria, attended by the same key scholars that attended the Pan African Congress, including Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, who was delivering a pilot presentation of her typological analysis of Early Stone Age tools, to be included in her 1971 contribution to Olduvai Gorge, " Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963.

Early zombie films like Victor Halperin's White Zombie ( 1932 ) and Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie ( 1943 ) concerned living people enslaved by a Voodoo witch doctor ; many were set in the Caribbean.

Early in 929 the joint forces of Duke Arnulf of Bavaria and King Henry I the Fowler reached Prague in a sudden attack, which forced Wenceslaus to resume the payment of a tribute which had been first imposed by the East Frankish king Arnulf of Carinthia in 895.

* Juan de Flandes ( 1460 – 1519 ), Early Netherlandish painter who was active in Spain from 1496 to 1519 at the court of Isabella I of Castile.

* Early 6th century – first academy of the east the Academy of Gundeshapur founded in Iran by Khosrau I of Persia.

* J. H. Lefroy ( editor ), Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands 1515 – 1685: Volumes I and II ( reprinted Bermuda Historical Society and National Trust, Hamilton, 1981 )

Grant's memoirs praised Wallace's delaying tactics at Monocacy: " If Early had been but one day earlier, he might have entered the capital before the arrival of the reinforcements I had sent.