CLAA04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Narmer Palette, Narmer, Standard Of Ur
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Urban revolution : 3100 bce: cuneiform. Sargon of akkad unites mesopotamia : 2240 bce: eneduamma ziggurat. To get water = a lot of work/farming/ organization/ not and individual level, so they had smaller towns collecting it, mesopotamians started collecting in small towns. Trading: materials traded for other raw materials : wood, pine. Centralized storage: people had tokens / then trade with neighbors or bring in and redeem: pictorial rep of crops/ tokens treated like money/ they can be stored. Cuneiform : tablet with practise wedge marks: system of writing things down, Rational authority= more population, more growth, more feeding coming in contact with other territories then conflict: fighting over it: war of umma and lagash c. 2400 bce : Cities aren"t secular/ theocratic all decision to the god/ not refer to their own king. Decision of war in the hand of god(patron deity)
