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| Origin and growth of cities |
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One of the first Archaeologists to recognize a connection between farming and the development of complex societies.
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| Archaeologist who studied rise of complex societies. Came up with primary and secondary characteristics that resulted from the Urban Revolution |
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Political organization with permanent government institutions.
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-Land between the Tigris and Euphrates rives. Not a state.
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What is the evidence for early trade among Mesopotamian cultures?
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The settlers of northern Mesopotamia. Simple pottery and clay walls.
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First settlers (archaeologists) have documented settling in Mesopotamian lowlands.
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Notable for making nice pottery. Came after Samarra culture.
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| Early development of Sumerian society was occurring in this period. Earliest writing also occurs in this period. Temple town. Advancement in intensity of agriculture. |
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- Biggest settlement during the Uruk period.
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| type of step-pyramid temple first built by the Sumerians 5,000 years ago in southern Mesopotamia, made of sun-dried mud bricks |
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Widespread in Uruk Period
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| Pictures used to convey messages, early form of marking that eventually developed into writing in Mesopotamia. |
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| little clay things that look like game pieces representing some object |
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| ball of clay which tokens are placed into and then fires, “inventory list” |
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Followed Uruk Period in Mesopotamia and was very similar, featering a continuation of developments made in the preceding period.
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| Beginning of the historical record. |
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| Important Historical document that included the names of of the rulers of sumer. |
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| Shows differences in class and suggests an elite class with absolute power of life and death |
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Leonard & Katherine Wooley
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| Discovered Queen Pu’abi in the cemetery of Ur. |
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| Queen buried with people and asses sacrificed around her tomb. |
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| a legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories |
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What are some of the important characteristics or trends of the Uruk period?
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Temple towns and agricultural intensification
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| What were the antecedents of Mesopotamian writing? How does Sumerian “pictographs” differ from “cuneiform” writing? |
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PIctures verse wedges. Pictograph is more directly visibly representational whereas cuneiform is lss so.
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| During which cultural period of Sumerian development do we find the earliest King List? |
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| During the historic, so, Early Dynastic |
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