Rise of Urbanism in Mesopotamia

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Rise of Urbanism in Mesopotamia Ca 3000 BC Chalcolithic Flyby – Bronze Age

map Sumer

Chalcolithic period

Eridu, 5,000 BC

Uruk, 3800 BC

Warka Vase

Movement away from Uruk, 3100 BC Shuruppak Cache – Kesh? Also increase in trade

*3000* Bronze Age in Mesopotamia Historical Period in Mesopotamia

Ur, 2500

Leonard Woolley

Standard of ur

Standard of Vultures

Vulture Stele

Sargon of Akkad

Third Dynasty of Ur, 2112-2000 Ur-Nummu and Shulgi Ziggurat Law Code of Ur-Nummu (Urnammu) Gilgamesh ‘Sumerian Renaissance’

Law code of Ur-Nummu

Gilgamesh

Bull of Heaven

Mt Mashu

Immortality?

Old babylonian 2000-1600 Hammurabi (Hammurapi) Conquests of the 1760s Mari and Sippur

Code of hammurabi Akkadian Susa Lex Talonis

Archives of mari and sippur Naditu -

Babylonian science

Serabit el khadim

review Eridu 5000, Uruk 3800: Chalcolithic 3000 Transition to Urbanism in Sumer: Ur. Historical, Bronze Age Sargon of Akkad, 2300 Third Dynasty of Ur: Lagash and Ur, 2112-2000 2000-1600 Old Babylonian

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