** 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.

Volume II: The Early Modern Period.

Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

Crannogs were used as dwellings over five millennia from the European Neolithic Period, to as late as the 17th / early 18th century although in Scotland, convincing evidence for Early and Middle Bronze Age or Norse Period use is not currently present in the archaeological record.

Following the northerly retreat of glaciers at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation over ten thousand years ago, human settlement by Native Americans or First Nations began in the Maritimes with Paleo-Indians during the Early Period, ending around six thousand years ago.

The End of Early Music: A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-First Century.

During the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Flanders was characterised by the presence of large urban centres (...) at the beginning of the nineteenth century this region ( Flanders ), with an urbanisation degree of more than 30 per cent, remained one of the most urbanised in the world.

Most professional historians ( defined as paying members of organizations devoted to the propagation of history in higher education, like the American Historical Association ) now refer to the historical periods commonly known as the Renaissance and the Reformation as " the Early Modern Period ".

The earliest remains consist of extensive rock cut installations, initially thought to date to the Early Bronze Age by Kenyon, these have recently been re-evaluated, first by Stager and then by Franklin, and are now recognized to be the remains of an extensive early Iron Age oil and wine industry ( designated Building Period 0 ).

After its adoption by the First Pan African Congress in 1947, the Three-Stage Chronology was amended by the Third Congress in 1955 to include a First Intermediate Period between Early and Middle, to encompass the Fauresmith and Sangoan technologies, and the Second Intermediate Period between Middle and Later, to encompass the Magosian technology and others.

Irish Art in the Early Christian Period.

The Theologies of the Eucharist in the Early Scholastic Period.

* Archaic Egyptian ( before 2600 BC, the language of the Early Dynastic Period )

One must remember that sugar in the Middle Ages or Early Modern Period was often considered medicinal, and used heavily in such things.

People in southern Korea adopted intensive dry-field and paddy-field agriculture with a multitude of crops in the Early Mumun Period ( 1500 – 850 BC ).

The Early Modern Period in Solothurn ended, as in the rest of Switzerland, with the French invasion in 1798.

Confederate general Jubal Anderson Early began a series of assaults in the North that threatened the Capital.

Early in the war, the Germans began to create makeshift assault guns by mounting their infantry support weapons on the bed of a truck or on obsolete tanks with the turret removed.

The Copper Age in the Middle East and the Caucasus began in the late 5th millennium BC and lasted for about a millennium before it gave rise to the Early Bronze Age.

Although recognized previously by others, the mathematical expression for the Coriolis force appeared in an 1835 paper by French scientist Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, in connection with the theory of water wheels, Early in the 20th century, the term Coriolis force began to be used in connection with meteorology.

Early animal studies received attention in the media, and some doctors began controversially using the chemical off-label.

European and Arab presence in Mombasa dates to the Early Modern period, but European exploration of the interior began only in the 19th century.

Early Voortrekker accounts describe how the lands surrounding the mountain retreat of the Basotho had been burnt and destroyed, in effect leaving a vacuum that subsequent Voortrekkers began to occupy.

Early performances of opera were too infrequent for singers to make a living exclusively from the style, but with the birth of commercial opera in the mid-17th century, professional performers began to emerge.

The transition began with Early Netherlandish painting in northern Europe, and by the height of the Renaissance oil painting techniques had almost completely replaced tempera paints in the majority of Europe.

* Early in the 21st century the number of wire lines in use stopped growing and in some markets began to decline.

In the middle of the 14th century the Early New High German ( and later New High German ) form of the name Breslau began to replace its earlier versions.

* Early 6th century – Irish colonists and invaders, the Scots, began migrating to Caledonia ( later known as Scotland ).

Early individual experimental radio stations in the United States began limited operations in the 1910s.

Early museums began as the private collections of wealthy individuals, families or institutions of art and rare or curious natural objects and artifacts.

Early in the 1190s, the Georgian government began to interfere in the affairs of the Ildenizids and of the Shirvanshahs, aiding rivaling local princes and reducing Shirvan to a tributary state.

Early in 250 the " Decian persecution " began.

Early shows began with a cold open suggesting the sinister plot for that program, then cut to a shot of a big ocean wave and the start of the theme song.

Early in his mayoral career, Thompson began to amass a war chest to support an eventual run for the Presidency by charging city drivers and inspectors $ 3 per month.

Early American settlers in south Texas began to use the modern ' English ' name Rio Grande.

In Europe during the Early Middle Ages, the term began to be used to describe Arab tribes.

Early in their history Sesame Street and the CTW began to look for alternative funding sources and turned to creating products and writing licensing agreements.

Early in his reign, he also began construction of the magnificent Château de Chambord, inspired by the styles of the Italian renaissance, and perhaps even designed by Leonardo da Vinci.