Answer:
6000 years ago
We believe Sumerian civilization first took form in southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BCE—or 6000 years ago—which would make it the first urban civilization in the region. Mesopotamians are noted for developing one of the first written scripts around 3000 BCE: wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay tablets.
it was Baron von Steuben.
The Song Dynasty (900-1200 CE/AD) was technically the first to industrialize. They were the first known to have assembly lines and they had very advanced technology, but due to their Confucianist ideals they weren't as expansionist and imperialist as Europe which means they didnt spread this at all... so once they were defeated, so was this small burst of industrialism.
