The Steps and the First European Settlements

At the time when cattle and sheep were first introduced into the steps, around 57 hundred b c. When they were first domesticated there, around 52 hundred b c,. The first agricultural communities were just starting to emerge at sumer in southern mesopotamia. But even so, it would still take another two thousand years for the first cities to emerge there - which would be the first cities known to the world. Meanwhile, the first european agricultural settlements and farming villages were beginning to emerge in the balkans near modern day romania. These people were herders, not grain farmers.