What is the name of the oldest civilization that we know of that had marriages?

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Steven

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any ideas? I dont care if polygamous, endogamous, monogamous, anything...what is the earliest society that we know of that had marriages?
 
Wow- good question.

More important of a question is when they started to have *meaning* - before renaissance England (in the West), marriages were just arranged formalities.

Edmund Spencer (in The Fairie Queene - a masterpiece) made marriage a meaningful entity in Western culture. But beyond that, I think marriage was an important institution with Indian and Chinese cultures.

I don't consider Babylon or Egypt "marriages" because polygamy was the norm -
 
Mesopotamia. People, marriages were conducted with priests. All the early river valley civilizations had marriages and had priests. They all had religions. So I am thinking that Mesopotamia was the earliest society to have marriages.
 
marriage is something a priest does and so i would have to say that Rome was the first to legally allow religion to decide who gets married but there has always been people coming together i would say ancient Babylon or Egypt. if you don't just mean religiously but if you do then Rome would have been
 
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