more pages from my list of #Creation stories:
“Abenaki to Zuni : 450 Cultures and their Creation Myths”
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@worldswerth.bsky.socialmore pages from my list of #Creation stories:
“Abenaki to Zuni : 450 Cultures and their Creation Myths”
@historyfiles.bsky.socialSumerian King List: the highly important #Sumerian #kinglist was written in #cuneiform on clay tablets, with the first version appearing during the #UrIII period.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialAkshak / #Akcak: this city first appeared in written records around 2600 BC and, during the period of its ascendancy in the 2400s BC, it was at war with #Lagash.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialMari: this important city is the modern archaeological site of #TellHariri on the west bank of the #Euphrates, the most northerly of all the #Sumerian city states.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialAdab: today's site of #Bismaya / #Bismya - was between Girsu & Zabalam, with its principal deity being the goddess #Ninhursag, not to be confused with Tell Bismaya.
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@4quazulu.bsky.social@historyfiles.bsky.socialHamazi: this city was thought to have been located in the W #ZagrosMountains, probably between #Elam & later #Assyria, but recent research gives it a better spot.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialLagash / #Sirpula: the rulers of #Lagash are absent from the #Sumerian king list even though the early leader, #Eannatum, built a short-lived empire out of local city states.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialUruk III / #JemdetNasr: the #UrukIII period which succeeded #UrukIV saw #Uruk itself being fully reconstructed, with Uruk-form tablets disappearing outside of southern #Mesopotamia.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialAwan / #Avan: one of the oldest city state kingdoms of #Elam, #Awan arose c.2600 BC, but little is known of its origins and, culturally, #Elamites achieved less than #Sumerians.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialUr / Urim: by the #EarlyDynastic III period small farming villages had mereged into a thriving centre of industry, with #Ur being sacred to the god #Nanna / #Nannar.
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@4quazulu.bsky.social@historyfiles.bsky.socialUruk: this was already a major city by 3300 BC, being here that #Sumerian civilisation seems to have reached its creative and social peak with familiar urban human themes emerging.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialGawra Culture: for about six hundred years this culture flourished in the north and east of #Mesopotamia in competition with much more powerful cultures from the south.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialKish: this city flourished in the full bloom of #Sumerian civilisation during the #EarlyDynastic, at the start of the 2000s BC, and was of major importance before eventual decline set in.
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@bookofworldhistory.bsky.socialAncient Mesopotamia: How the Land Between Two Rivers Invented Civilization
Mesopotamia gave the world its first cities, laws, and writing system. Discover how the land between…
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https://bookofworldhistory.com/blog/ancient-mesopotamia-land-between-two-rivers-civilization
@historyfiles.bsky.socialPriest-King of #Uruk: in the mid-3000s BC there are several #cylinderseal impressions in Uruk, #Susa, & #ChogaMish showing a bearded male figure, possibly the first #priestking.
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@historyfiles.bsky.social#UrukIV Period: at its start c.3900-3800 BC the number & size of settlements vastly & enthusiastically increased, especially in two regions in southern #Mesopotamia: central & south #Sumer.
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@historyfiles.bsky.socialShuruppak: enduring for about a millennium, starting in the early #JemdetNasr (3100-2900 BC) & ending during one of many dramatic #Antediluvian regional floods.
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